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From: bitbug@seal.engr.sgi.com (James Buster)
Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel
Subject: Re: XFS and journalling filesystems
Date: 28 May 1999 00:31:37 GMT
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In article <7ij4cr$g3gck@fido.engr.sgi.com>,
David Luyer  <luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>It is a 64-bit filesystem, and they even state that its release is hoped
>to encourage the use of their hardware - I don't think they're aiming for
>it to be usable on 32-bit systems here.

Since XFS works on 32-bit SGI systems (Indys, for example), it should
be no problem to get it working on a 32-bit Intel system.
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From: bitbug@seal.engr.sgi.com (James Buster)
Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel
Subject: Re: XFS and journalling filesystems
Date: 28 May 1999 00:29:43 GMT
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In article <7ijuj3$gbv47@fido.engr.sgi.com>,
Jeff Merkey <jmerkey@timpanogas.com> wrote:
>There's a lot of issues with mapping a **REAL** SMP file system to Linux.
>Linux needs a lot of SMP work to support these types of technologies with
>some decent scaling and an expanded set of sync primitive.   I've got
>$100.00 that says it will be **SLOWER** than ext2, and the scaling will
>be dismal.  Care to take the bet?

We've got installed base with 256 CPUs, 128GB of memory and 10TB of disk
on a single machine, and you think XFS *isn't* a "real SMP filesystem"?
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Planet Bog -- pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking
atomsphere of poisonous gases... but aside from that, it's not
much like Earth.