jdd wrote:
let me say (I read this thread now for a moment) that there are two different problems:
* will it be possible to keep using a 9.2 JFS system with newer SUSE distro?
Not without fixing the initrd created by 10.0. Once you do that, it works perfectly fine. (and it's just a question of editing /etc/sysconfig/kernel and running mkinitrd). So the answer is - definitely possible, but not supported ...
* why is not the jfs file system supported.
JFS caused a problem in 9.3, or rather the earlykdm init-script of 9.3 unearthed some problems in JFS. They were fixed quite early - back in March I believe - but didn't make it in time for the 9.3 deadline. Perfectly reasonable.
I can't answer the first thing, but clearly the second one must have an explanantion - you just give a very convincing one (citation) - should be on opensuse.
What happened in 9.3 is all over and done with, but I fail to understand what was so difficult about re-instating JFS functionality and support in 10.0 now that the problems have long been fixed. After all, I'm sure Novell didn't just sack all the people who understood JFS :-) /Per Jessen, Zürich