On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 02:15 +0000, Peter Grandi wrote:
> Hi I have recently noticed that the DeveloperWorks site has got
> reorganized over the years and the JFS papers as a result have
> gotten a bit broken, as in there are now only the HTML versions,
> and the links to the illustrations seem wrong.
> 
> So I have done a bit of searching hoping to find surviving
> copies on the net, and I found much more readable copies of the
> PDF versions, with the images inline, inside the SUSE 'jfsutils'
> RPM, for example inside this RPM:
> 
>   ftp://FTP.SUSE.com/pub/suse/i386/9.3/suse/src/jfsutils-1.1.7-5.src.rpm
> 
> Perhaps those PDFs should extracted from that RPM and put
> somewhere on the JFS page on SourceForge, as they still seem
> largely current (and much more readable than the broken HTML).

Okay.  I'm sorry it's taken me so long to act on this.  I found the pdf
files on www6.software.ibm.com, so I have changed the links to point to
the them rather than the html.  You're right.  They are much more
readable, even if the links in the html still worked.  :-)

> I have also started moving my notes on Linux filesystems and JFS
> in particular, and I have written so far a summary of the JFS
> layout paper, here:
> 
>   http://WWW.sabi.co.UK/Notes/linuxFS.html#jfsStruct
> 
> It may not be a faithful summary as some bits of the JFS layout
> papers seemed somewhat ambiguous to me, and I have a slightly
> different way of looking at things (and it is not that proofread
> yet, especially the intralinks).

I haven't reviewed this yet, but I'll try to get to it before I forget.
Do you mind if I link to this from the documents section of the web
page?
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center



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