Re: Announcing Journaled File System (JFS) release 1.0.0 available

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 16:21:23 EST


> JFS doesn't require any modifications to existing code, its only an
> addition.

It depends how clean the interface is. It is possible to avoid changing
core code by writing your own clone of it - that isnt good and doesnt make
people happy sometimes.

> XFS on the contrary is far more intrusive.

Right - XFS I think is 2.5 material - for cleanup time, for the core changes
it wants to provide. Maybe as a 2.4 backport later

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