Re: Should we orphan JFS?

[Dave Kleikamp]

On 1/13/23 7:08AM, Harald Arnesen wrote:
> 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.

I know at one time it was one of the recommended filesystems for MythTV. 
I don't know of any other major users of JFS. I don't know if there is 
anyone familiar with the MythTV community that could weigh in.

Obviously, I haven't put much effort into JFS in a long time and I would 
not miss it if it were to be removed.

Shaggy