I was wondering about this a while ago as it was holding up an upgrade
of our DPM pool nodes, on which we use jfs, from SLC3 to SLC4.
I got the impression that jfs is no longer actively developed, but just
about supported, so it has become a dead end as far as some linux
distros are concerned. That may be why Redhat don't include it anymore.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Journaled_File_System_2_(JFS2)
If anyone does want jfs for SL4, I note that Centos provides a kernel
with jfs (amongst other things) plus the jfsutils rpm in their
'centosplus' repo.
Read http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4/centosplus/Readme.txt
Might be of interest if you need jfs but you prefer not to build your
own kernel and have someone else provide the updates.
Cheers,
Simon
Greig Alan Cowan wrote:
> To reply to my own email... I got this from the SL users list:
>
> "As far as I know upstream does not ship/support jfs on EL4 and higer.
> It's not supported for EL3 either, jfutils are there only to help manage
> an deprecated package kernel-unsupported."
>
> So if you are after JFS on SL4, looks like you're onto a loser.
>
> Cheers,
> Greig
>
> On 03/04/08 17:18, Greig Alan Cowan wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just to let you know that I posted a question about JFS on SL4 to the
>> SL users mailing list, and there hasn't been any response. I had a
>> manual look in the repositories and jfsutils can't be found in the SL4
>> ones, but is in the base SL3 repo.
>>
>> Greig
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