On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 08:49 -0800, usr local wrote: > The patch mailing list shows a number of patches post > jfs 1.1.7 that seem important. > > Are there any 'must-have' jfs patches that should be > backported for systems using kernel-2.4.27 or > kernel-2.4.28?
The most important are in 2.4.29-rc1: o JFS: Fix extent overflow bugs o JFS: avoid assert in lbmfree o JFS: Fix endian errors o JFS: fix race in jfs_commit_inode I'm not sure if any of these are must-have, but they shouldn't cause any problems either. > Debian is about to release Debian 3.1 with > kernel-2.4.27 which includes jfs patches included in > kernel-2.4.28. It would be nice if jfs shipped with > Debian 3.1 is as stable as possible (I've been > recommending it to many). > > And are there plans to release jfsutils 1.1.8 in the > near future? Yes, I've been meaning to fix one more thing and release 1.1.8. Is there a specific deadline that I should make? Thanks, Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list Jfs-discussion@www-124.ibm.com http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
