Announcing Journaled File System (JFS) release 1.0.2 available

[Steve Best]

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