On Thu, 11 May 2000, Dilog Mail wrote: > > SGI is contributing to the XFS file system to the Open Source Linux > > community using the copyleft GPL license. XFS is one of SGI's core > is to be GPL'ed. To date there are at least three JFS's floating around, > which are > GPL or about to become so: > > * The SGI XFS > * IBM's JFS (lifted from OS/2) > * The Reiser JFS distributed with SuSE there's also ext3 in the works and a fifth one if memory serves (it doesn't I didn't sleep tonight) > Does the Linux community have a forum for discussing anddetermining > OUR requirements, or will the "standard" eventually be determined by > who manages to buy us all off with most "goodies"? is there a need for a standard? as long as they all have a nice abstraction and plug into the VFS of Linux 2.4 nicely I see no reason for them to standardize nor a chance of it happening, seeing that it comes from rivals such as SGI and IBM. > > Are the above JFS's compatible? Interchangable? no, and probbly no. > <Slight rave> What I'm saying s something very simple: I use the IBM > jdk, VAJava, MQ Series and lots of other IBM Linux freebies, and > worse still, I'm ex OS/2, why worse? OS/2 is a great OS. sadly IBM doesn't want to continue or free it. > so I'd almost naturally drift to the IBM JFS when it becomes how is that connected? CXFS does wonders JFS doesn't. and I haven't seen benchmarks of either on linux yet. go to the SGI lecture, and you may be persuaded otherwise... > available. I imagine that most of us have our own private > predilections, but none of thatis particularly relevant to "what > should be". If we are reasonably firm about "what should be", there > is a chance all the above offerings may converge in functionality, > with differences being confined to performance and added value > (API's, classes, etc.). </Slight rave> and again, if they don't (and they won't) it's still good. it's great to have a choice, it's devine to have a choice between different possibilities that are each SO good. if you want to have the "right" solution dictated to you by some company stadard, then stick to your beloved IBM. they encourage you to "choose" IBM every time. Linux may not be for you. -- Ira Abramov ; Penguinophile ; www.linux.org.il "...you might as well skip the Xmas celebration completely, and instead sit in front of your linux computer playing with the all-new-and-improved linux kernel version." (By Linus Torvalds) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
