Re: JFS libraries/headers for userspace?

[aq <aquynh@gmail.com>]

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.

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?

So if possible, please release something like jfslibs-dev. People want
to write software for JFS would appreciate it.

Thank you,
aq