Release 1.1.0 of JFS was made available today.
Drop 63 on November 20, 2002 (jfs-2.4-1.1.0.tar.gz
and jfsutils-1.1.0.tar.gz) includes fixes to the file
system and utilities. Extended attributes and ACLs patches
have been updated also.
Utilities changes
- rename jfs utilities as follows:
fsck.jfs -> jfs_fsck, is hard linked to fsck.jfs upon install
mkfs.jfs -> jfs_mkfs, is hard linked to mkfs.jfs upon install
jfs_tune remains the same
logdump -> jfs_logdump
xchklog, xchkdmp combined -> jfs_fscklog
xpeek -> jfs_debugfs
logredo removed, function added to jfs_fsck via
--replay_journal_only option
- update man pages appropriately for name changes
- change jfs_fsck option -o to --omit_journal_replay
- fix log replay errors
- fix off-by-one error, minor formatting error in jfs_fsck
- keep jfs_fsck from complaining during specific tree restructuring
- fix jfs_debugfs to recognize all inode types
- code cleanup
File System changes
- Fix off-by-one error when symbolic link length == 256 (bug 1513)
- jfs_clear_inode should skip bad inodes instead of choking on them
(bug 1445)
- Make txForce actually force the metadata to disk
- Fix hang on umount after stress test(#21357) ACL problem
- Fix byte-swapping problem in getting ealist->size (bug 21085) EA
problem
For more details about JFS, please see the patch instructions or
readme files.
Steve
JFS for Linux http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs