From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: aq Subject: Re: JFS libraries/headers for userspace? Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:41:34 +0900 Message-ID: <9cde8bff05042722411948785c@mail.gmail.com> References: <9cde8bff050427030030bb1a01@mail.gmail.com> <1114616062.3964.6.camel@localhost> Reply-To: aq Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: fsdevel Return-path: Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.192]:60308 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262024AbVD1Fle convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:41:34 -0400 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so293063rnf for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:41:34 -0700 (PDT) To: Dave Kleikamp In-Reply-To: <1114616062.3964.6.camel@localhost> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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. 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