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Re: Is JFS really open source?

From Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM>
Newsgroups comp.os.os2.programmer.misc, comp.os.os2.misc, comp.os.os2.beta, comp.os.os2.utilities
Subject Re: Is JFS really open source?
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Organization virginmedia.com
Date 2011-04-05 19:51 +0100

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> The Linux JFS was IIRC ported directly from the OS/2 JFS source code, 
> which IBM did originally release about 10 years ago. It was on an IBM 
> site (AlphaWorks, I think) as was the LVM source; I think both have 
> disappeared from there now, though.
>

That's one of the little-spoken-of problems in the world of open 
source.  Years down the line, it turns out that things aren't open 
source, because the source isn't published any more.  The JFS project at 
SourceForge has only Linux trees (linux24, linux25, and linux-2.2.12) 
and there's no sign of those trees ever having had a jfs_ifs.c file 
(which is the file to look at for the relevant OS/2 FSD entrypoints, if 
anyone comes across this discussion in the future).

OS/2 LVM source code was available?  What was it the source for?  The 
LVM utility?  The device manager driver?  I've looked all over the place 
to find a description of the on-disc data structures, so far fruitlessly.

> The modified eCS JFS has its source code released (in snapshots) 
> somewhat fitfully via FTP at ftp.netlabs.org/pub/openjfs (currently 
> it's a couple of releases out of date); if there's a more current 
> repository I'm not sure where it is. The latest source should be 
> available on request, though.
>

I went to the list at http://svn.netlabs.org/ .  As you can see, there's 
no mention there.  A request to whom?

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