Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 29 Aug 2000 22:40:00 -0400 | From | Robert Schweikert <> | Subject | File system |
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Any news whether or not the final 2.4 kernel will have a journaling file system (ReisserFS, XFS, or JFS)?
Judging from the IBM site it appears that the JFS port is not anywhere near ready for prime time. The XFS port appears to be farther along and SGI has a 2.4.0-test5 source tree for download, why has this not been merged with the main kernel, as I recall when I build the 2.4.0-test5 kernel, downloaded from kernel.org I did not have the option of choosing XFS as the file system. I know that SUSE 6.4 ships with the option of having ReisserFS partitions, but that was not part of the available file systems for the 2.4.0-test5 either.
I read in the September issue of Linux Journal that there is a potential development of an ext3 FS, which would be a journaling file system. This seems kind of odd to me, as JFS and XFS are both proven file systems, the code for both is I think GPLed, wouldn't the resources for ext3 not be better used getting JFS and XFS ported as quickly as possible?
I'm just curious.
Thanks, Robert
-- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU rjschwei@mindspring.com LINUX
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