Bugzilla – Bug 129950
JFS filesystem no longer available during installation
Last modified: 2005-11-24 10:21:53 UTC
In preparation to upgrade several systems (8) from SuSE v9.1 and SLES 9, to a current release, we created a test system first with SuSE Linux 10.0 and then with 10.1. In both cases, the JFS filesystem was missing from the installation process. The systems to be upgraded (fresh OS install), and the site where they reside, use the JFS filesystem exclusively; this was one of the factors behind selecting SuSE originally. Why has JFS disappeared? When can we expect to see it back in the installation utility? Is there a way we can conduct an installation of SuSE 10.x with the JFS filesystem now?
JFS is no longer in YaST since 9.3 From SUSE Linux 9.3 Release Notes. JFS: Not Supported Anymore Due to technical problems with JFS it is not supported anymore. The kernel file system driver is still there, but YaST will not offer partitioning with JFS. Do not upgrade servers now to 10.0. 10.0 is not an Enterprise product. Wait until SLES10 comes out (probably mid-2006) and upgrade then. SLES9 is current, so don't change it, just keep it updated.
Could you elaborate on the technical problems with JFS? we have been running it on Linux and AIX systems for years. Will SLES10 support JFS? The ability to continue with JFS is mission critical for the site in question.
SLES10 will not support JFS. The technical problems we had at 9.3 time was that a JFS root-filesystem was not usable at all. This has been fixed in the meantime but we decided to not support JFS anymore.
JFS is not supported but we plan to add it as unsupported for the future, this is tracked elsewhere. resolving as invalid since I don't see a better status for this.