linux-kernel - Re: Should we orphan JFS?

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Date:   Fri, 13 Jan 2023 14:08:47 +0100
From:   Harald Arnesen <harald@...gtun.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...nel.org>
Cc:     jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Should we orphan JFS?

Christoph Hellwig [13/01/2023 06.42]:

> Hi all,
> 
> A while ago we've deprecated reiserfs and scheduled it for removal.
> Looking into the hairy metapage code in JFS I wonder if we should do
> the same.  While JFS isn't anywhere as complicated as reiserfs, it's
> also way less used and never made it to be the default file system
> in any major distribution.  It's also looking pretty horrible in
> xfstests, and with all the ongoing folio work and hopeful eventual
> phaseout of buffer head based I/O path it's going to be a bit of a drag.
> (Which also can be said for many other file system, most of them being
> a bit simpler, though).

The Norwegian ISP/TV provider used to have IPTV-boxes which had JFS on 
the hard disk that was used to record TV programmes.

However, I don't think these boxes are used anymore.
-- 
Hilsen Harald