From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 12 19: 1:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hal-pc.org (hal-pc.org [204.52.135.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582F137B401; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:01:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wotan@ns.fosburgh.org) Received: from gw.fosburgh.org (206.180.128.156.dial-ip.hal-pc.org [206.180.128.156]) by mail.hal-pc.org (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA28421; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 21:01:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by gw.fosburgh.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5D20vh66924; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 21:00:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from wotan@ns.fosburgh.org) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 21:00:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan E Fosburgh Reply-To: fosburgh@flash.net To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" , Josef Karthauser , lists@globalrelay.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needs your help) In-Reply-To: <20010613102151.G5486@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Whatever happened to the open source release of JFS, or is JFS really > > bad ? > > The open source version of JFS was based on OS/2, not AIX. It's not > an overly good fit to UNIX. > The AIX v4.3 version of JFS (JFS 1) has reached the end of its development life (this according to an IBM filesystem developer at Share in Long Beach earlier this year). Perhaps IBM will at some point open up the source for it. Of course, the OS/2 version of JFS is what JFS 2 is developed off of, and UNIX development of it was done on Project Monterrey, so apparently it can be fit onto UNIXen. And JFS 2 offers some interesting functionality in the future, including (potentially) the ability to shrink filesystems, and on the fly to boot. Jonathan Fosburgh Software Systems Specialist III MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.fosburgh.org Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.fosburgh.org/computer/freebsdring.html ICQ: 32742908 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7JslVqUvQmqp7omYRAkxJAJ44qtnNgsclbds7DdyEDUH28WL0HQCfUgin tH7srVxqkGTHE3xbN+qcxGs= =A8Su -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message