Announcing Journaled File System (JFS) release 1.0.4 available

[Steve Best]

Release 1.0.4 of JFS was made available today.

Drop 42 on August 31, 2001 (jfs-2.2-1.0.4-patch.tar.gz
or jfs-2.4-1.0.4-patch.tar.gz) includes fixes to the
file system and utilities.

Function and Fixes in release 1.0.4

- Fixed typecast problem causing intermittent fsck failures on
  64 bit hardware (jitterbug 159)
- Fixed pointer calculation problem causing intermittent fsck
  failures on 64 bit hardware
- Fixed compiler warnings on s/390 and IA64
- Fixed structure size mismatch between file system and utilities
  causing fsck problems when large numbers of inodes are used
- Fixed seg fault in fsck when logging path lengths greater than
  512 characters
- Fixed fsck printf format errors
- Fixed compiler warnings in the FS when building on 64 bits systems
- Fixed deadlock where jfsCommit hung in hold_metapage
- Fixed problems with remount
- Reserve metapages for jfsCommit thread
- Get rid of buggy invalidate_metapage & use discard_metapage
- Don't hand metapages to jfsIOthread (too many context switches)
  (jitterbug 125, bugzilla 238)
- Fix error message in jfs_strtoUCS

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

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