Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jan 2023 14:08:47 +0100 | Subject | Re: Should we orphan JFS? | From | Harald Arnesen <> |
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Christoph Hellwig [13/01/2023 06.42]:
> Hi all, > > A while ago we've deprecated reiserfs and scheduled it for removal. > Looking into the hairy metapage code in JFS I wonder if we should do > the same. While JFS isn't anywhere as complicated as reiserfs, it's > also way less used and never made it to be the default file system > in any major distribution. It's also looking pretty horrible in > xfstests, and with all the ongoing folio work and hopeful eventual > phaseout of buffer head based I/O path it's going to be a bit of a drag. > (Which also can be said for many other file system, most of them being > a bit simpler, though).
The Norwegian ISP/TV provider used to have IPTV-boxes which had JFS on the hard disk that was used to record TV programmes.
However, I don't think these boxes are used anymore. -- Hilsen Harald
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