[ANNOUNCE] Journaled File System (JFS) release 1.0.16

[Steve Best]

Release 1.0.16 of JFS was made available yesterday.

Drop 54 on March 11, 2002 (jfs-2.4-1.0.16.tar.gz
and jfsutils-1.0.16.tar.gz) includes fixes to the file
system and utilities. JFS has been incorporated into the
2.5.6 linux kernel, and the 2.4.X-ac kernels beginning
with 2.4.18-pre9-ac4.

Utilities changes
- make fsck.jfs exit codes conform to fsck (see updated fsck.jfs man page)
- display/log fsck.jfs exit code in debug exit msg
- fix xchkdmp to print logredo messages
- make xchkdmp print message text instead of message number
- use PBSIZE for physical block size instead of BLKSSZGET ioctl
  (eliminates MD error msg "used obsolete MD ioctl", fixes S/390 mkfs.jfs)
- remove libfs open/close wrappers (Christoph Hellwig)
- messaging code cleanup, general code cleanup (all)

File System changes

- Limit readdir offset to signed integer for NFSv2 (Christoph Hellwig)
- missing static in jfs_imap.c (Christoph Hellwig)
- Fix infinite loop in jfs_readdir
  weren't updating the directory index table completely (bug # 2591)
- Sync up 2.4 tree with 2.5 -- (Christoph Hellwig & Shaggy)
  move to completions, provide back-compact for pre-2.4.7
  remove dead code
  add kdev_t conversion, that should have been in 2.4 anyway
  move one-time inode initialization into slab constructor
- Remove non-core files from CVS

For more details about JFS, please see the patchinstructions or
changelog.jfs files.

Steve
JFS for Linux http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs