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Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:13:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net>
To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalpr@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Re: JFS2 on freebsd
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>From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
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>On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
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>> would a port of JFS2 be of interest to freebsd core?
>> thanks
>> -kamal
>
>There are many things that would be of interest to FreeBSD users, but 
>that's not a good reason to start a project.  If you're motivated only 
>because you think others desire your work, you'll probably give up when 
>you have to start dealing with all the realities of the project.  However, 
>if you're motivated because *you* want to port JFS2, then you'll probably 
>do a good job of it.
>
>So, of course support for new filesystem support is good, but my personal 
>opinion is that JFS2 isn't worth your time, for two reasons:
>
>a)  Even if it's BSD licensed, it's unlikely to displace UFS as our 
>default filesystem.
>
>b)  It's not a widely used filesystem, so it doesn't really increase our 
>interoperability with other OSes.
>
>OTOH, updating our ext2 code, or ntfs code (if that's even possible) would 
>be something of use to many people, I suspect.

Why not go for ext3 instead of JFS then? It has 
journaling in it.

-SB