What are the differences between the Linux version of JFS and the one found on OS/2?
Steve Best: The JFS for Linux is a port from OS/2 and has an OS/2 compatibility option. The OS/2 source was also used for the JFS2 just release on AIX 5L. There is a JFS1 on AIX and we didn’t use this source base, since the OS/2 source base was a new “ground-up” scalable design started in 1995. The design goals were to use the proven Journaling File System technology that we had developed for 10+ years in AIX and expand on that in the following areas: Performance, Robustness, and SMP support. Some of the team members for the original JFS designed/developed this File System. So this source base for JFS for Linux is now on the following other Operating Systems: OS/2 Warp Server for e-business 4/99 OS/2 Warp Client (fixpack 10/00) AIX 5L called JFS2 4/01 4. Has JFS made its way to be included as an option on the Linux kernel? Steve Best: Not yet, Our plan is to submit a patch for the 2.5 kernel tree when that opens up and then back port it to the 2.4.x series of the kernel. This plan migh
