Greetings all,
I was surprised by the performance JFS in Ubuntu 10.04 alpha on my laptop. As I understand it everything is fine with the license and JFS also works with SELinux. Why drop support for JFS from the kernel and made it as a module? I do not want to argue about that JFS is better or worse ext4/xfs/etc, I just want to know why when installing Fedora 12, I can not format the partition as JFS?
Thank you!
Vitaliy T wrote:
I was surprised by the performance JFS in Ubuntu 10.04 alpha on my laptop. As I understand it everything is fine with the license and JFS also works with SELinux. Why drop support for JFS from the kernel and made it as a module? I do not want to argue about that JFS is better or worse ext4/xfs/etc, I just want to know why when installing Fedora 12, I can not format the partition as JFS?
Well, the Fedora Project prefers not to make the option that apparent, but I understand that if you install from non-live media (e.g. the DVD) and pass “jfs” as a kernel command line option then you can still install to JFS: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#reiserjfs
What’s wrong with the JFS driver being a module? It doesn’t stop you having / on JFS, since the JFS module can be built in to the initrd. It just means that the majority of people who don’t use JFS don’t have in permanently loaded in their kernel.
Hope this helps,
James.
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Vitaliy T