The 'Journaled File System' Technology for Linux was included in Marcelo Tosatti's Linux 2.4.20-pre4 release of the kernel. A full changelog is available here.

IBM's journaled file system technology is designed for high-throughput server environments, and is key to running intranet and other high-performance servers. IBM is contributing this technology to the Linux open source community under the GPL.

Additional information about JFS is available on here.

 
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