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Could you catch me up on what "jfs" is?

On 12/11/19 5:31 PM, Michael Zucchi wrote:
>
> Morning,
>
> I just built a new computer and thought i'd give guix a go but after 
> finally getting everything working to the install stage ... I hit a 
> personal showstopper - no jfs support whatsoever.  It's mostly an 
> afterthought on every other distribution but this was a surprise.
>
> Any reason for this or is it just that nobody thought of it?
>
> Anyway, I just ended up installing slackware-current and have then 
> installed guix atop that, to grab a few packages and to get more 
> familiar with it.  I would probably have had to do that anyway as it 
> was probably too much to learn at once but I currently have a lot of 
> spare time to fill, so tried guix first.
>
> Regards,
>  Z
>