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From:   Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
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Subject: Re: Should we orphan JFS?
Date:   Sat, 14 Jan 2023 05:09:10 -0700
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Cc:     Harald Arnesen <harald@skogtun.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
        jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net,
        linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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To:     Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com>
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On Jan 13, 2023, at 08:15, Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com> wrote:
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> =EF=BB=BFOn 1/13/23 7:08AM, Harald Arnesen wrote:
>> Christoph Hellwig [13/01/2023 06.42]:
>>> Hi all,
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>>> 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 th=
e hard disk that was used to record TV programmes.
>> However, I don't think these boxes are used anymore.
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> 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.
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> Obviously, I haven't put much effort into JFS in a long time and I would n=
ot miss it if it were to be removed.

I've used MythTV for many years but haven't seen any particular recommendati=
ons for JFS there. Mainly ext4 and XFS are the common filesystems to follow t=
he main distros (Ubuntu in particular).=20

Cheers, Andreas=