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XFS: A high-performance journaling file system
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<b>Tuesday May 1 2001:</b> SGI is pleased to announce the 1.0 release of XFS<sup>tm</sup>,
a high-performance journaled filesystem for Linux.
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<h2>Update: Release 1.0.1 of SGI XFS is now available.  For information on the 1.0.1 
release, please see the <A HREF="101_changes.html">XFS for Linux Release 1.0.1 New Features</A> page.
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As a leading supporter of Linux and the open source
movement, SGI is providing a
reliable, resilient, scalable, high-performance
filesystem for business-critical Linux infrastructure.
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XFS, widely recognized as the industry-leading high-performance
filesystem, provides rapid recovery from system crashes
and the ability to support extremely large disk farms. XFS is
the first journaled filesystem for Linux
available today that has
a proven track record in production environments
since late 1994.
It is a mature technology that
has been proven on thousands of
IRIX systems as the default filesystem for all SGI customers.
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XFS Linux 1.0 is released for the Linux 2.4 kernel and offers the following:
<ul>

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Advanced features:
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<ul>
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Fast recovery after a system crash or power failure (fsck not needed)
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Journalling for guaranteed filesystem integrity
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<li>
Direct I/O
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Space preallocation
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Transactionally recorded quotas
</li>
<li>
Access control lists and Extended attributes
</li>
<li>
Infrastructure for XDSM support
</li>
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Excellent overall performance
</li>
<li>
Excellent scalability (64 bit filesystem)
</li>
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A complete toolset including:
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<ul>
<li>
dump/restore support including all XFS filesystem features such as
ACLs and quotas
</li>
<li>
Repair utility, filesystem editor, and growing the filesystem
</li>
<li>
XFS 1.0 is distribution-independent and is certified with the Linux
Kernel (2.4.x) For those using Red Hat Linux, an installer is
available.  Other installers are under development in the community.
</li>
<li>
ACL editing utility
</li>
</ul>


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Excellent integration with other Linux subsystems:
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<ul>
<li>
NFS server support
</li>
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Root filesystem and lilo support
</li>
<li>
Software raid integration with md and lvm packages
</li>
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Mount by label and mount by uuid
</li>
</ul>
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Maintains on-disk compatibility with XFS filesystems created under
IRIX
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</ul>

<p>
XFS is licensed under GPL.
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More information is available on the <a href="1.0_release.html">
SGI XFS Linux Release 1.0</a> page.
</p>

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For a more extensive listing of the capabilities and specifications
of XFS, see 
<a href="features.html"> XFS for Linux Features</a>.


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Source Code:</font></b></h2>
A complete linux 2.4.x-based tree including the XFS filesystem is available
for CVS checkout.
<p>Two distinct trees are available: 
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<ul>
<li>linux-2.4-xfs: fast moving development tree </li>
<li>linux-2.4-xfs-r1.0: XFS Linux Release 1.0</li>
</ul>
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Patches and RPMs are also available, please see the <A HREF="1.0_release.html">
SGI XFS Linux Release 1.0</A> page for details.
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Man Pages:</font></b></h2>
XFS man pages are available in <A HREF="manpages.html"> html</a>.

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