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Re: XFS vs. JFS

To: Keith Matthews <keith_m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS vs. JFS
From: Vincent Bernat <bernat@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 20:48:14 +0200
Cc: Linux XFS Mailing List <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <20010701183306.E9B64125E6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from keith_m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 07:33:06PM +0100
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Le Sun Jul 01, 2001 at 19:33 +0100, 
Keith Matthews <keith_m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> disait :

> The IBM guy was not aware of the OS/2 origin of Linux JFS,
> but I had heard of it from other sources (I had also heard
> that someone has back-ported the Linux version to OS/2 and
> come up with a better product than the original OS/2 one !!).

The major interest of the backport to OS/2 is that JFS is not freely
available for OS/2. It is in Aurora (Warp Server 5) and incoming
eComStation but not for Warp 4. It is one of the curious strategy that
IBM uses to signify that OS/2 is almost dead.

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