Ken Schneider wrote:

Gerald Pfeifer pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Per Jessen wrote:

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How about being really blunt and telling us what that reason is?

And then I thought I was pretty blunt. ;-)

- It's interesting to see that a few here favor JFS, but in terms of customer requests I do not recall a single one for JFS nor a single complaint when we deprecated JFS with SLES 10.

- JFS doesn't really meet any needs that cannot be handled by other file systems in the distro (and the future belongs to clustered file systems anyway so that's where we are actually focusing).

Clustering is not of much use on a single drive home system. I can't think of one instance where it would be beneficial.

Good point Ken - is this something that can be separated into a 'desktop' vs 'server' installation option during installation? For me, I have my own ideas about desktop installations, knowing my own workload types, but for servers a more advanced install with a greater choice of file system types exposed might be better. Taking sensible choices for the end user for a desktop installation can be a good thing - something we've started on already with the /home partition being suggested as a separate partition. Maybe an extension to this would be to suggest a preferred fs type for the profile of the machine being installed?

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- Our QA is not testing JFS nor do any of our partners as far as I can tell, unlike the other file systems which regularily undergo massive testing.

- If you run into a problem with ext3/ReiserFS/XFS these should be easily and quickly addressed by the openSUSE kernel maintainers; for JFS I wouldn't know that.

To me as a user the first might not be that strong of an argument, though when it comes to data being mainstream is usually a good idea. The last two I find pretty convincing. :-)

Gerald

To be honest, someone choosing to use JFS for their fs after being recommended to use an alternate type during installation either doesn't need any help or else needs more help than can be provided. Two use cases that we could probably class as 'you're on your own' :) Cheers Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org