From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
To: aq <aquynh@gmail.com>
Cc: fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
JFS Discussion <jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: JFS libraries/headers for userspace?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:18:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1114694313.8122.29.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9cde8bff05042722411948785c@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:41 +0900, aq wrote:
> On 4/28/05, Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 19:00 +0900, aq wrote:
> > > hello,
> > >
> > > I am writing a program in userspace to extract information from a JFS
> > > filesystem. Unfortunately I cannot find which packages provides
> > > libraries/headers for JFS in userland. Could anybody please tell me
> > > where to look for it?
> >
> > You are looking for jfsutils. There isn't a good general-purpose
> > user-space library. Part of jfsutils is a library, libfs.a, but it is
> > an ad-hoc collection of functions used by the utilities without any real
> > structure or documentation.
>
> I am surprised: why there is no separate headers/libraries for JFS in
> userspace? Meanwhile, other FS like Reiser, XFS all have their.
Probably because I've never had a requirement to provide them.
> In this situation, I must extract needed libraries and headers from
> jfsutils, and then package them to include with my software. That is
> not so convenient, isnt it?
No, probably not. If you're writing a GPL'ed program, you may want to
look at grub. The file you want is fsys_jfs.c.
> So if possible, please release something like jfslibs-dev. People want
> to write software for JFS would appreciate it.
I don't have the time now to work on providing a package like this, but
if someone were to volunteer to put together a jfslibs-dev package, I
would certainly support it.
> Thank you,
> aq
--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-27 10:00 JFS libraries/headers for userspace? aq
2005-04-27 15:34 ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-04-28 5:41 ` aq
2005-04-28 13:18 ` Dave Kleikamp [this message]
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