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Date:      Wed, 04 Jul 2001 11:38:08 +0100
From:      Antony T Curtis <antony@abacus.co.uk>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net>, Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, lists@globalrelay.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needs your help)
Message-ID:  <3B42F210.C49FCED8@abacus.co.uk>
References:  <20010608134705.19635.qmail@web14701.mail.yahoo.com> <004001c0f030$36a0d3e0$0600020a@frontend> <20010612120958.G10614@tao.org.uk> <20010612192245.4ce69cf3.steveo@eircom.net> <20010613102151.G5486@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, 12 June 2001 at 19:22:45 +0200, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:09:58 +0100
> > Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > JK> On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 08:32:23AM -0700, Eric Parusel wrote:
> > JK> > > > A journalling FS for those people who just hate waiting for a
> > JK> > couple
> > JK> > > > of
> > JK> > > > TB of slow disks to fsck?
> > JK> > >
> > JK> > > Does ReiserFS work with FreeBSD?
> > JK> >
> > JK> > >From what I've read, XFS is quite good as well....  (Whether or not it
> > JK> > could ever work with *BSD, I don't know)
> > JK>
> > JK> Apparently XFS would run better on FreeBSD than on Linux, from what
> >
> >       Whatever happened to the open source release of JFS, or is JFS really
> > bad ?
> 
> The open source version of JFS was based on OS/2, not AIX.  It's not
> an overly good fit to UNIX.

That was only because AIX's JFS implementation was so closely bound into
their kernel that there was no easy way to "port" it out of it. Also,
AFAIK, it was written in a mesh of different languages too, including
POWER architecture assembly.

The OS/2 version was the first clean implementation to plug into OS/2's
IFS driver model - and being written in C, it is much more 'portable'.
(AFAIK, it was supposed to be able to be recompiled for OS/2 for CHRP
PowerPC)

All said, I would be interested in a JFS port for FreeBSD ....

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