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Bionic port of JFS utils

IBM's Journaled File System (JFS) for Linux JFS Utilities Version 1.1.14, April 6, 2008

The NEWS file contains a brief overview of user-visible changes to the utilities.

The ChangeLog file contains a list of specific changes to the JFS utilities.

INSTALLATION

There are 3 methods to install the JFS utilities:

Note: The utilities require the uuid.h file. Most Linux Distributions ship this file in the e2fsprogs-devel package, please install the e2fsprogs-devel package before you build the utilities.

A. Installation - RPM

  1. You can use the RPM distribution to build the JFS utilities:

    rpmbuild -tb jfsutils-1.1.13.tar.gz

B. Installation - Building From Source From Tar Ball

After the source has been unzipped and untarred:

  1. Change directory into the top of the jfsutils source tree.

  2. Run the configure script:

    ./configure

  3. Compile the utilities:

    make

  4. Install the utilities:

    make install

C. Installation - Building From Source From CVS Tree

After the source has been retrieved from the CVS Tree:

  1. Change directory into the top of the jfsutils source tree.

  2. Run the autogen.sh script:

    ./autogen.sh

  3. Compile the utilities:

    make

  4. Install the utilities:

    make install

CVS ACCESS

anonymous cvs access is available for the JFS utilities from sourceforge.net. To checkout the sources:

cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/jfs login No password, just press enter cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/jfs co -P jfsutils

SEE ALSO

man pages for the JFS utilities

README file included in the JFS file system

http://jfs.sourceforge.net/

Please send bugs, comments, cards and letters to [email protected].

The JFS mailing lists can be subscribed to by using any of the links containing "subscribe" along the left side of our web page at http://jfs.sourceforge.net