Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Per Jessen wrote:
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).
- 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.
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. 2) Exactly the same goes for ext3, reiserfs and xfs. 3) Surely this is only because you've chosen not to support JFS. 4) That applies to many kinds of software that is included by openSUSE. 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. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - your spam is our business. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org