Per Jessen
Gerald, none of those are reasons for deprecating JFS IMHO. You said "there is a reason why JFS is deprecated with current versions of SLES" - now instead of one strong argument, you list four very weak arguments:
1) Customer requests - I find it difficult to believe that every openSUSE decision to include/exclude <something> depends on customer requests.
Gerald made the argument for SLES. The only requests for JFS I have seen are from openSUSE users - and that's why we have added it back for openSUSE as an "unsupported" filesystem.
2) Exactly the same goes for ext3, reiserfs and xfs.
3) Surely this is only because you've chosen not to support JFS.
Speaking of partners: They could have spoken up and ask for JFS - and then we would have asked them for testing.
4) That applies to many kinds of software that is included by openSUSE.
5) User base: I think you're the only one really using it;-) - or at least the most vocal one.
Anyway, JFS has been back in openSUSE since 10.1 (I think it was) - you get an annoying pop-up window when you choose it, but I can live with that.
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