Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT]  Journaled File System (JFS)  release 1.0.9
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Message-ID: <OFAB7E736A.A5C21A90-ON85256AFF.005D3B1C@raleigh.ibm.com>
From: "Steve Best" <sbest@us.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:00:24 -0600
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org

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


-
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/