Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:57:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:57:24 -0400 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.104]:43403 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:57:23 -0400 Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Journaled File System (JFS) release 1.0.22 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.5 September 22, 2000 Message-ID: From: "Steve Best" Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:02:14 -0500 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D01ML072/01/M/IBM(Release 5.0.11 |July 29, 2002) at 09/16/2002 12:02:16 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1961 Lines: 58 Release 1.0.22 of JFS was made available today. Drop 60 on September 16, 2002 (jfs-2.4-1.0.22.tar.gz and jfsutils-1.0.22.tar.gz) includes fixes to the file system and utilities. There are two patches available to support ACLs, the first is JFS extended attributes (jfs-2.4-1.0.22-xattr.patch) the second is JFS ACLs (jfs-2.4-1.0.22-acl.patch). Utilities changes - add jfs_tune utility (see jfs_tune man page for details) jfs_tune allows users to: attach a JFS external journal to a JFS file system set/change volume label, UUID of JFS file system and external log devices view superblock information of JFS file system and external log devices - add option '-J journal_device' to mkfs.jfs to create an external journal only and optionally set its volume label (see mkfs.jfs man page) - add option '-J device=' to mkfs.jfs to attach an existing JFS external journal to the JFS file system that will be created (see mkfs.jfs man page) - fix mkfs.jfs to store 16 character volume labels properly - code cleaup - add extend support to JFS FSIM for EVMS see http://sourceforge.net/projects/evms/ File System changes - Use strtoul instead of strtoull - Add write_super_lockfs & unlock_fs used for snapshot - rework extent invalidation - cosmetic changes to reduce the diff to the bitkeeper tree - backport lmLogWait from 2.5 - Remove unused jfs_extendfs.h - use buffer_heads to access the superblock - ifdef out unused functions related to partial blocks - sync the block device on umount or r/o remount - remove superfluous includes For more details about JFS, please see the patch instructions or changelog.jfs files. Steve JFS for Linux http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/