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<FONT FACE="ARIAL NARROW, HELVETICA" SIZE="5"><B>Status of the XFS Port to Linux as of 6/2/2000</B></FONT>
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XFS on Linux is expected to have a
beta release during the summer of 2000 with a production quality release a couple of
months later. (These seasons are relative to the northern hemisphere).
The source code was released Open Source during March of 2000.  People are
encouraged to download and try the code.  People should be cautioned that
the code is somewhat experimental as development is ongoing (6/2/2000).

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Most of the file system's functionality is working and demonstrable.
There are some IRIX'ism that are not working, yet, like extended
attributes and a complete Direct I/O implementation.
One part missing from Linux implmentation is quotas.
See <A HREF="todos.html">Work Items</A><BR> for the current work being
done.

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Some features recently integrated into XFS include, delayed allocation writes,
one endian format (BIG), placing the vnode into the Linux inode, and
many bug fixed including some corruption problems.

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XFS' fast recovery has been executed many times by shutting off the machine
while the file system is active. The file system recovers quickly (in about 1 second)
after the machine reboots. This is independent of the file system's size.
Recovery occurs when the file system is mounted.


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