Moshe,
In your article http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20000524S0007, it
appears you are unaware that SGI has released the XFS code. This was done
a few months ago and the announcements appeared in slashdot and other
places.
Many thousands of people have downloaded XFS and are playing with it.
We have an entire 2.3 kernel tree available for download. (see
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs).
All file system functionality is there, but there are all kinds
of bugs still in the code. We are also adding more XFS functionality
before first release. The current source even has "delayed" allocation
implemented where each writes do not result in an allocation. This is
pretty rough right now and needs more work, but the main code is there.
The implementation is not beta or alpha quality, yet. We expect to have a
beta quality version in the coming months.
FYI,
Jim
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