Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!feeder.news-service.com!cyclone02.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe18.ams2.POSTED!00000000!not-for-mail From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 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? References: <4d87a1f9$0$7652$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <4D95CB7D.2060206@chollian.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.20.254.174 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe18.ams2 1302030374 86.20.254.174 (Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:06:14 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:06:14 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:51:14 +0100 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.os2.programmer.misc:175 comp.os.os2.misc:247 comp.os.os2.beta:115 comp.os.os2.utilities:70 > 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 it's a couple of releases out of date); if there's a more current 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?