Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:54:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:54:44 -0500 Received: from e21.nc.us.ibm.com ([32.97.136.227]:14789 "EHLO e21.nc.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:54:30 -0500 Importance: Normal Subject: Announcing Journaled File System (JFS) beta 2 release 0.2.0 available To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Steve Best" Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 14:54:01 -0500 Message-ID: X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D04NM201/04/M/IBM(Release 5.0.6 |December 14, 2000) at 03/07/2001 02:54:05 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 The beta 2 drop of JFS was made available today. The file system has fixes included. In the utility area there is new jfsprogs.spec file created by Jim Nance. This spec file can be used to create RPM for the JFS utilities. The file system has general work done to remove SMP and UP hang related problems. The performance of the file system has increased by changes to extent inode cache, also the log manager is no longer uses the page cache for log pages and this change has increased the performance of the file system. Joe Nuspl patches have also been included in this drop for the problems he has found/fixed. Jim and Joe thanks for your changes. For more details about the problems fixed, please see the README. Steve JFS for Linux http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/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/