[ANNOUNCEMENT] Journaled File System (JFS) release 1.0.9

From: Steve Best (sbest@us.ibm.com)
Date: Fri Nov 09 2001 - 12:00:24 EST


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

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