From: "Steve Best" <sbest@us.ibm.com> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Journaled File System (JFS) release 1.0.13 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:45:57 -0600 Release 1.0.13 of JFS was made available today. Drop 51 on January 25, 2002 (jfs-2.4-1.0.13-patch.tar.gz or jfs-2.5.2-1.0.13-patch.gz and jfsutils-1.0.1.tar.gz) includes fixes to the file system and utilities. Function and Fixes in release 1.0.13 Utilities changes - update xchklog and xchkdump parameters and man pages - reduce/eliminate instances of 'access beyond end of device' error message - compatibility fix for different versions of automake - fix typo in spec file - defines cleanup (Christoph Hellwig) - unicode cleanup (Christoph Hellwig) - endian portability fix (Christoph Hellwig) - convert types uxx, uintxx, sxx, intxx to C99 types (code cleanup) File System changes - chmod changes on newly created directories are lost after umount (bug 2535) - Page locking race fixes (Christoph Hellwig) - Improve metapage locking (Christoph Hellwig) - Fix timing window. Lock page while metapage is active to avoid page going away before the metadata is released. (Fixed crash during mount/umount testing) - Make changes for 2.5.2 kernel - Fix race condition truncating large files 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/