Release 1.0.16 of JFS was made available yesterday.
Drop 54 on March 11, 2002 (jfs-2.4-1.0.16.tar.gz
and jfsutils-1.0.16.tar.gz) includes fixes to the file
system and utilities. JFS has been incorporated into the
2.5.6 linux kernel, and the 2.4.X-ac kernels beginning
with 2.4.18-pre9-ac4.
Utilities changes
- make fsck.jfs exit codes conform to fsck (see updated fsck.jfs man page)
- display/log fsck.jfs exit code in debug exit msg
- fix xchkdmp to print logredo messages
- make xchkdmp print message text instead of message number
- use PBSIZE for physical block size instead of BLKSSZGET ioctl
(eliminates MD error msg "used obsolete MD ioctl", fixes S/390 mkfs.jfs)
- remove libfs open/close wrappers (Christoph Hellwig)
- messaging code cleanup, general code cleanup (all)
File System changes
- Limit readdir offset to signed integer for NFSv2 (Christoph Hellwig)
- missing static in jfs_imap.c (Christoph Hellwig)
- Fix infinite loop in jfs_readdir
weren't updating the directory index table completely (bug # 2591)
- Sync up 2.4 tree with 2.5 -- (Christoph Hellwig & Shaggy)
move to completions, provide back-compact for pre-2.4.7
remove dead code
add kdev_t conversion, that should have been in 2.4 anyway
move one-time inode initialization into slab constructor
- Remove non-core files from CVS
For more details about JFS, please see the patchinstructions or
changelog.jfs files.
Steve
JFS for Linux http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs