From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 18:29:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 18:29:13 -0500 Received: from e21.nc.us.ibm.com ([32.97.136.227]:22925 "EHLO e21.nc.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 18:29:03 -0500 Importance: Normal Subject: Announcing Journaled File System (JFS) release 0.1.6 To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Steve Best" Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 18:28:26 -0500 Message-ID: X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D04NM201/04/M/IBM(Release 5.0.6 |December 14, 2000) at 02/26/2001 06:28:50 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 latest drop of JFS was made available today. The file system has fixes included. The log manager no longer uses the page cache for log pages, this eliminates dead-locks that were occurring in the log manager. The file system has general work done to remove SMP dead-lock problems. fsck now supports default values passed by fstab correctly. For more details about the problems fixed, please see the README. Steve JFS for Linux http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jfs