Arnvid Karstad wrote: > Hello everyone.. > > I'm a bit puzzled about the current developments of jfs for linux. > Lately it seems that you have stopped developing it for 2.2.x which is sad > for those of us that still only want to use 2.2.x based kernel's.. Currently > we're stuck with 1.0.5 which has a few bugs in it.. > > Why did you guys stop fixing the 2.2.x based version?
As the code changed to take advantage of the new features in the 2.4 series kernel, it has become difficult to maintain JFS on both 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. Now that the distributions are shipping 2.4 kernels, there is little incentive to put any resources into maintaining a 2.2 version of JFS. JFS is beginning to ship in the 2.4 kernels of some distributions (Mandrake, SuSE, and TurboLinux), and we hope to soon have JFS included in Marcelo's 2.4 kernel as well as 2.5 kernels. The JFS team doesn't think there is enough demand to warrant the time and effort to push JFS into the 2.2 kernels. > And.. is it possible to "backport" the current JFS version so that it will be > 2.2 compatible? If someone were to submit patches against the 2.2.x versions of JFS, we could surely put them into the repository and package up new releases as needed. > > Keep up the good work, Steve _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
