Re: JFS

[Laurent CREPET <lcrepet free fr>]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:49:25PM -0400, Knut J Bjuland wrote:
> Is there any chance if we would se IBM's JFS in a kernel from Redhat in
> either rawhide or update kernel?
> 

IBM has just released JFS 1.0 for Linux. Since its available as
a patch, you can add it to your kernel source tree, and build
your JFS-enable kernel.

When SGI released XFS 1.0 (for Linux), some people asked if RedHat
will include it. Now, SGI has released its own RH 7.1 modified to
support XFS from anaconda installer (at installation time).

Since those questions, no more information. I don't think you
could have the answer from this list... Let's see what we will
have in 7.2 anaconda installer...

If you think about ReiserFS, it has been included in SuSE, and
after, in 2.4 kernel, so in RH 7.1. But RH doesn't offer ReiserFS
at installation time.

There are two way for a new filesystem to arrive in a distro:
  - the new filesystem is included directly in the distro
  - the new filesystem is included in the kernel, so in the
    distro (if we don't talk about installation time)

In less than 2 years (I say), a lot of journalised filesystems
arrived on Linux. Some from scratch, some are ports to Linux.

My opinion is that it's stupid to have a lot of concurrent
filesystems. Every distro will be able to announce its own
(SuSE -> ReiserFS, RedHat -> ?, etc.)... Seems that everyone
is doing its own, forgetting that filesystem support is first
a problem of kernel, and there's only one Linux kernel ! The
one ! So many people trying to do the same thing... Is it a
loss of time ? Let's think about this.

Laurent.
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