fistgen-0.1.2 released (stackable file systems)

[Erez Zadok]

We released fistgen-0.1.2.  You may download it from:

	ftp://ftp.filesystems.org/pub/fist/fistgen-0.1.2.tar.gz

Fistgen is a package for building stackable file systems on Linux, FreeBSD,
and Solaris, using a simple language called FiST.  For more information,
refer to the FiST home page: http://www.filesystems.org/.

This release primarily has many fixes and updates for FreeBSD and Linux.

*** Notes specific to fistgen 0.1.2:

FreeBSD 5.x templates:

- minor fixes to FreeBSD-5 templates to work for 5.1 and 5.2.

- new templates for FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE.

Linux 2.[46] Templates:

- many bugs fixed, thanks to thorough testing with a POSIX test suite.
  Fixed bugs related to locking, read/write interaction, open files, large
  files, symlinks, stat() attribute consistency, permissions, and more.

- support sendfile() so loopback mounts work through stackable file systems
  built from fistgen.

New fist declaration "license" which takes a string.  This declaration MUST
be defined to ensure that users of fistgen, especially on Linux, are aware
of what license they picked for their output file system; this may affect
whether the new file system module will be able to use all of the GPL kernel
symbols or not.

Cheers,
Erez.