On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 16:29 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can someone please comment on the direction of JFS and Linux? Maybe I > have missed something.
I'll comment. These are just my thoughts as a developer. I'm not speaking officially for IBM, and I can't speak for Novell. > I am not sure what RedHat is doing, but this applies for Suse: Redhat hasn't supported jfs in RHEL for quite some time. > According to: > http://www.novell.com/linux/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/10/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html > > > JFS: Not Supported Anymore > JFS is no longer supported for new installations. The kernel file > system driver is still there, but YaST does not offer partitioning > with JFS. > > JFS is a great option, and I do not understand why it is being > desupported (by SuSE). I have been running JFS on many hundreds of > machine, for both root filesystems and large (2TB+) databases for > greater than 2 years now. I believe it all comes down to cost. It takes a lot of resources to support a file system. In addition to the cost of programmers to maintain and enhance the code, there is a significant cost required to test different hardware and workloads. Although there are people such as yourselves that have been quite satisfied with jfs, there are not a whole lot of enterprise customers using jfs, or if there are, we haven't done a very good job of counting them. As for me, I'm still maintaining jfs part-time, but not doing any major development on it. Continue to report bugs. :-) > Thanks for any info.. > > Nick Thanks, Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
