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Announce the Beta + a bunch of clean up.

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XFS:A high-performance journaling file system</h2>
</font></b><i><font size=-1>URL: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/</font></i></h2>

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XFS Beta Release</font></h2>
XFS for Linux has been Beta released.
More information is available on <a href="beta.html">this page</a>.

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<b><font face="ARIAL NARROW,HELVETICA">XFS Features:</font></b></h2>

<ul>
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Sub-second filesystem recovery after crashes or power failures (never wait
for long <tt>fscks</tt> again)</h4>

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64-bit scalability: millions of terabytes, millions of files, and a million
files per directory (no more 2 GB limits)</h4>

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High reliability and performance from journaling and other advanced algorithms</h4>
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Source Code:</font></b></h2>
A complete linux 2.4.0-test5 tree including the XFS filesystem is available
for cvs checkout.
<p>The code is Beta quality and although the basic functionality is
operational, it may hang or crash your machine.
<p>Please refer to the&nbsp; <a href="cvs_download.html">CVS instructions</a>&nbsp;
for&nbsp; details.<br>
There is also a <A HREF="http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/linux-2.4-xfs/">web interface</a>
to CVS available.

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Man Pages:</font></b></h2>
XFS man pages are now available in <A HREF="manpages.html">
html</a>.
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Further information:</font></b></h2>
At the Ottawa Linux Symposium, an updated presentation on porting XFS&nbsp;to
Linux was given:
<ul>
<li>
&nbsp; <b>Porting XFS to Linux</b> (July 2000) [<a href="papers/ols2000/ols-xfs.htm">html</a>]</li>
</ul>

At the USENIX Technical Conference, SGI presented the following:
<ul>
<li>
<b>Porting the SGI XFS File System to Linux</b> (July 2000) -
paper [<a href="http://www.sgi.com/developers/feature/2000/xfs_jul00.html">html</a>]
and presentation [<a href="papers/usenix2000/usenix2000.htm">html</a>].
</li>
</ul>

At the Atlanta Linux Showcase, SGI presented the following paper on the
port of XFS to Linux:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li><b>Porting the SGI XFS File System to Linux</b> (October 1999)
[<a href="papers/als/als.ps">ps</a>]
[<a href="papers/als/als.pdf">pdf</a>]
</li>
</ul>

At the 6th Linux Kongress &amp; the Linux Storage Management Workshop (LSMW)
in Germany in September, 1999, SGI had a few presentations including the
following:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li><b>SGI's port of XFS to Linux</b> (September 1999)
[<a href="papers/linux_kongress/index.htm">html</a>]</li>

<li><b>Overview of DMF</b> (September 1999)
[<a href="papers/DMF-over/index.htm">html</a>]</li>
</ul>

At the LinuxWorld Conference &amp; Expo in August 1999, SGI published:
<ul>
<li><b>An Open Source XFS data sheet</b> (August 1999)
[<a href="papers/xfs_GPL.pdf">pdf</a>]</li>
</ul>

From the 1996 USENIX conference:
<ul>
<li><b>An XFS white paper</b>
[<a href="papers/xfs_usenix/index.html">html</a>]</li>
</ul>

You can also check out the following:
<ul>

<li><b>An IRIX-XFS data sheet</b> (July 1999)
[<a href="papers/IRIX_xfs_data_sheet.pdf">pdf</a>]</li>

<li><b>Selected original 1993 XFS design documents</b>
[<a href="design_docs/xfsdocs93_ps/">ps</a>]
[<a href="design_docs/xfsdocs93_pdf/">pdf</a>]</li>

<li>
The <b>Original XFS white paper</b>,
[<a href="http://www.sgi.com/Technology/xfs-whitepaper.html">html</a>]
back from the early days when it didn't have quota
support. Yes, it has it now.&nbsp;</li>

<li>
Press release #1: <b>SGI Contributes World's Most Scalable File System 
Technology to Open Source Community</b>
[<a href="http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/1999/may/xfs.html">html</a>]
</li>

<li>
Some related discussions on the <b> Linux Kernel Mailing List</b>
[<a href="postings/">text</a>]
</li>

<li>
A <b>Linux World Article</b>
[<a href="http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-05/lw-05-sgi.html">html</a>]
</li>
</ul>


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