IBM's Journaled File System (JFS) for Linux
JFS Utilities
Version 1.0.18, May 24, 2002

TEAM MEMBERS
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Steve Best         sbest@us.ibm.com
Dave Kleikamp      shaggy@us.ibm.com  
Barry Arndt        barndt@us.ibm.com
Christoph Hellwig  hch@infradead.org


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
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There are 3 methods to install the JFS utilities:


A. Installation - RPM
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1)  You can use the RPM distribution to build the JFS utilities:

	rpm -tb jfsutils-1.0.18.tar.gz


B. Installation - Building From Source From Tar Ball
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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
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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
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anonymous cvs access is available for the JFS tree and the JFS utilities
tree from the oss.software.ibm.com server.  It contains the latest source 
code for JFS and its utilities.

id anoncvs
password anoncvs
CVSROOT should be set to :pserver:anoncvs@oss.software.ibm.com:/usr/cvs/jfs

To checkout 2.4.x series of the JFS files enter the following:
cvs checkout linux24

To checkout 2.5.x series of the JFS files enter the following:
cvs checkout linux25

To checkout the JFS utilities enter the following:
cvs checkout jfsutils

To receive notification of commits to the cvs tree, please send e-mail to 
linuxjfs@us.ibm.com stating that you would like notifications sent to you. 


SEE ALSO
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man pages for the JFS utilities
 
README file included in the JFS file system
 
http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs


Please send bugs, comments, cards and letters to linuxjfs@us.ibm.com.

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