On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 13:01:36 -0500, Timothy J. Massey wrote: >This leads me to ask a question: How closely related are the OS/2 and >Linux code? I understood that the intention was to port back the Linux >changes to OS/2. Is that still the case? > >I just migrated back from JFS to HPFS on my OS/2 WSfeB server. After >struggling for over a year and a half with various JFS versions and >experiencing server-crashing corruptions over and over again, I have >given up. I'm still interested in the availability of JFS for Linux >(and hopeful for a stable version under OS/2), I've decided that JFS is >still a long way away from stability on either platform. > >Anyway, I'm hoping that the activity here will at least have *some* >chance of being seen in a future OS/2 JFS update...
Well I doubt any back porting from Linux will ever make it into the base OS/2 distributions, because of licensing issues with the GPL. But probably with little work the Linux code can be merged back into the OpenJFS source on Netlabs. However I've been running JFS on my development machine since the Aurora beta and on my server for quite a while now and I haven't experienced and problems with JFS stability on OS/2 (or Linux for that matter). I have heard that early JFS versions for OS/2 had problems with SMP but from what I understood those problems had been solved by the time the convenience packages and eComStation were released. But I run only Uniprocessor so I can't say from personal experience. Brian Smith _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
