On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:44:55PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> Per Jessen wrote:
> 
> > Is there anything about JFS and kernel 2.6.11+ I need to know or understand?
> 
> Just a follow-up - when I asked a similar question on the suse-linux-e list, 
> someone
> quoted the folowing from the SuSE 9.3 Release Notes: 
> 
> "Due to technical problems with JFS it is not supported anymore. The kernel 
> file system
> driver is still there, but YaST will not offer partitioning with JFS."
> 
> Might somebody here know what sort of technical problems these were?

Here's my guess: 

One problem that I know of is that JFS isn't yet supported on the
yaboot boot loader for PPC systems, but the SuSE installer (in SLES 9
at least) would let one install onto a root JFS anyway on a PPC
machine, this would cause an unbootable system even though everything
is there.

It does work on lilo and grub on x86 as expected though, so no-one
probably caught this bug for a little while.

Sonny


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