From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Kleikamp Subject: Re: JFS libraries/headers for userspace? Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:18:33 -0500 Message-ID: <1114694313.8122.29.camel@localhost> References: <9cde8bff050427030030bb1a01@mail.gmail.com> <1114616062.3964.6.camel@localhost> <9cde8bff05042722411948785c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: fsdevel , JFS Discussion Return-path: To: aq In-Reply-To: <9cde8bff05042722411948785c@mail.gmail.com> Sender: jfs-discussion-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: jfs-discussion-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:41 +0900, aq wrote: > On 4/28/05, Dave Kleikamp 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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id=105hix