                          Under support of OS2.Ru, Russian Team OS/2

FreeJFS project by Pasha Shtemenko
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What is it ?
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FreeJFS is a freeware version of installable filesystem driver
for Journaled File System (JFS) by IBM and set of utilities for JFS
partitions.

FreeJFS is based on freeware and opensource OpenJFS for Unix by IBM.


Why we work at it
-----------------

We need FREE, good, stable and reliable version of JFS.

We don't need  troubles like CHKDSK moving all files
with national symbols in filenames to "lost+found" directory.

(Currently this bug is closed by IBM and named it "errors with
 cyrillic characters". They did it after getting our bugreports,
where we fixed this error ;)



Current Status of FreeJFS
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FreeJFS.IFS build 1.0 has been working on several systems about
2 months. I saw no bugs, unstable situations or failings.

In the future, we plan to open sources of FreeJFS. Please
be patient and don't bother us with this question.



Using of FreeJFS utilities
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 ISJ utility

  ISJ allows you to set dirty flag on JFS volumes to "no check" status
  and toggle the superblock using to its 2nd copy.

  See detailed info in ISJ documentation


 U_JFS utility

  U_JFS grabs JFS super blocks to text files


 OpenJFS utilities

  It's a set of utilities, compiled from OpenJFS for Linux by IBM.



In this package
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\freejfs-bin            	FreeJFS.IFS and UJFS.DLL files
\freejfs-utils          	FreeJFS and OpenJFS utilities

FreeJFS.txt                 This file
FreeJFS.rus             	The same in russian
isj_doc.txt                 ISJ utility documentation
isj_doc.rus                 The same in russian
jfs_basic_info.txt          An introduction to JFS
jfs_basic_info.rus          The same in russian
openjfs_utils.txt           OpenJFS utilities short documentation
openjfs_utils.rus           The same in russian
How-to-install.txt          Installation how-to


Warranties
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You can use FreeJFS at your own risk.


Contacts
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FreeJFS e-mail support: freejfs@os2.ru
FreeJFS WWW Page:       http://OS2.Ru/projects/freejfs

Main developer of FreeJFS: Pasha Stemenko


