Re: [Jfs-discussion] JFS, AIX, Linux, any news?

[Christoph H. <hc...@in...>]

> So what's the real story now? I mean, if they have a 
> common source base, why can't they be compatible? 
> One may notice JFS2 to have appeared later (the release 
> date says nothing about development however), so the 
> introduction of additional features may cause 
> incompatibilities. But nevertheless I'm wondering about 
> what the use would be to develop two similar but 
> incompatible file systems at a time...(having in mind 
> that the two OS can be run on the same machine)

JFS2 on AIX is native endian, so unless you got the really rare
IA64 version of it it's big endian while JFS on Linux is always
little endian.  Besides that I think it has an incompatible ACL
format, although I'm not sure.