Release 1.0.9 of JFS was made available today.
Drop 47 on November 9, 2001 (jfs-2.4-1.0.9-patch.tar.gz
and jfsutils-1.0.9.tar.gz) includes fixes to the file system
and utilities.
Function and Fixes in release 1.0.9
- don't print heartbeat if fsck.jfs output is redirected
- make mkfs.jfs options conform to mkfs, clean up parse code
- fix typo in mkfs.jfs man_html page
- allow xpeek to show us directory xtrees
- fix fsck.jfs infinite loop on big endian hardware (jitterbug 182)
- fix infinite loop when endian swapping bad directory tree page
- Fix data corruption problem when creating files while deleting
others. (jitterbug 183)
- Make sure all metadata is written before finalizing the log
- Fix serialization problem in shutdown by setting i_size of directory
sooner. (bugzilla # 334)
- JFS should quit whining when special files are marked dirty during
read-only mount.
- Must always check rc after DT_GETPAGE
- Add diExtendFS
- Removing defconfig from JFS source - not really needed
For more details about JFS, please see the README or changelog.jfs.
Steve
JFS for Linux http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs