Re: XFS to main kernel source

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 08:18:32AM -0400, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote:
> JFS seems to be lacking as much compatibility as ReiserFS. 
> Something tells me that this is because it was a port from OS/2
> rather than AIX's version???  I haven't used or tested JFS so I'm
> making these statements blind.  Feel free to rebuke me on this, I
> just looked at its feature list, what was missing and dismissed it
> from any consideration.

JFS/Linux is based on JFS for OS/2.  JFS2 for AIX5 is based on
JFS for OS/2 as well.

> I take it it is not OSS?  ;-PPP  It must be OSS or at least of
> commodity cost to gain widespread acceptance, regardless of
> superiority.

There is a free VxFS driver in the Linux kernel driver (written by me),
currently is is read-only, but that will change in the long-term.

But's that's probably not the implementation he was refering to.

        Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.