From: "Steve Best" <sbest@us.ibm.com> To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Announcing Journaled File System (JFS) release 1.0.2 available Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:56:32 -0500 Release 1.0.2 of JFS was made available on August 3, 2001. Drop 40 on August 3, 2001 (jfs-1.0.2-patch.tar.gz) includes fixes to the file system and utilities. There is now a patch being provided that will make it easier to move from release 1.0.1 to 1.0.2, the patch file is call jfs-1_0_1-to-1_0_2.patch.gz. Function and Fixes in release 1.0.2 - Fixed mkfs to display the correct error message if device name is not valid or missing (Thanks Evgeni Gechev) - gzip the man pages and place them /usr/share/man/man8 during make install (Thanks Greg Lehey) - Fixed mkfs to properly setup buf_ai (caused Bus error with mkfs on SPARC Linux) - Fixed fsck to display path correctly - Fixed multiple truncate hang (Thanks Anne Milicia) - Fixed hang on unlink a file and sync happening at the same time - Improved handling of kmalloc error conditions - Fixed hang in blk_get_queue and SMP deadlock: bh_end_io call generic_make_request (jitterbug 145 and 146) - stbl was not set correctly in dtDelete - changed trap to printk in dbAllocAG to avoid system hang 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/