Re: JFS

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Laurent CREPET a écrit :

> 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)
>

I think some distros jumped on ReiserFS for its marketing value.   I
think  RedHat was right in waiting because
1) ReiserFS still has problems.
2) This was picking the first FS ready instead of the best.  It is better
to wait until all contenders have been officially released, test them,
benchmark them and pick the best.



>
> 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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