Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.16.MISMATCH!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!novia!sequencer.newscene.com!not-for-mail From: "Alex Taylor" 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? Date: 4 Apr 2011 09:51:02 -0500 Organization: Newscene Usenet News Service, http://www.newscene.com/ Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <4d87a1f9$0$7652$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <4D95CB7D.2060206@chollian.net> Reply-To: alex@altsanhat.org User-Agent: ProNews/2 V1.59.cp120 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.os2.programmer.misc:161 comp.os.os2.misc:232 comp.os.os2.beta:106 comp.os.os2.utilities:62 On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 00:50:00 UTC, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > > But both IFS's are Open Source, and can be found on Netlabs. > > This brings up an interesting point that I was going to query. It's > said that JFS for OS/2 source code is available, and that's certainly > the received wisdom that's been repeated over the years. But yesterday > was the first day that I actually went looking for the source code. (I > wanted to check the sffsi structure and see what it did about current > file position values.) I couldn't find it. It's not on the SourceForge > WWW site for JFS, which only has Linux source. There's only binaries on > Hobbes. LEO doesn't do software any more. Netlabs doesn't have a JFS > project listed. Where, actually, *is* this source for OS/2 JFS that is > supposed to exist? 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. 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released (in snapshots) somewhat fitfully via FTP at ftp.netlabs.org/pub/openjfs (currently it's a couple of releases out of date); if there's a more current repository I'm not sure where it is.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. -- Alex Taylor Fukushima, Japan http://www.socis.ca/~ataylo00 Please take off hat when replying.