[TUHS] AIX moved into maintainance mode

[Kevin Bowling]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 2:20 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 02:43:53AM -0700, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> > https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/17/unix_is_dead/
>
> Just coincidentally, there is currently discussion in Linux kernel
> circles about whether it's time to drop support for JFS.  JFS was
> originally from OS/2 and then ported to Linux and AIX, although JFS
> for Linux and JFS2 for AIX have diverged.  JFS has been in maintenance
> mode in 2008, and the number of users is close to zero at this point.
>
>                                                - Ted

I had really good experiences with that in the early to mid 2000s,
great performance and never lost data.  By the time ext4 came out it
was no longer much differentiated (extents) and the upgradability and
larger user base of ext4 made it obsolete.