JFS2 on freebsd

[Sergey Babkin]

>From: Mike Silbersack <silby at silby.com>
>
>On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
>
>> would a port of JFS2 be of interest to freebsd core?
>> thanks
>> -kamal
>
>There are many things that would be of interest to FreeBSD users, but 
>that's not a good reason to start a project.  If you're motivated only 
>because you think others desire your work, you'll probably give up when 
>you have to start dealing with all the realities of the project.  However, 
>if you're motivated because *you* want to port JFS2, then you'll probably 
>do a good job of it.
>
>So, of course support for new filesystem support is good, but my personal 
>opinion is that JFS2 isn't worth your time, for two reasons:
>
>a)  Even if it's BSD licensed, it's unlikely to displace UFS as our 
>default filesystem.
>
>b)  It's not a widely used filesystem, so it doesn't really increase our 
>interoperability with other OSes.
>
>OTOH, updating our ext2 code, or ntfs code (if that's even possible) would 
>be something of use to many people, I suspect.

Why not go for ext3 instead of JFS then? It has 
journaling in it.

-SB