Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jan 2023 09:06:00 -0600 | Subject | Re: Should we orphan JFS? | From | Dave Kleikamp <> |
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On 1/13/23 7:08AM, Harald Arnesen wrote: > 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.
I know at one time it was one of the recommended filesystems for MythTV. I don't know of any other major users of JFS. I don't know if there is anyone familiar with the MythTV community that could weigh in.
Obviously, I haven't put much effort into JFS in a long time and I would not miss it if it were to be removed.
Shaggy
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