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XFS: A high-performance journaling file system
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On May 1 2001, SGI made available Release 1.0 of its high-end XFS file
system for Linux.
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.
For a listing of the capabilities and specifications
of XFS, see 
<a href="features.html">XFS for Linux Features</a>.
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XFS is licensed under the GPL.
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XFS 1.2 Pre-release #5 Available
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<p>
      The latest patches and rpm's are ready for testing.
      <A HREF="ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.2pre3">
	ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.2pre3/</a>
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	This fixes a corruption problem on the root filesystem at shutdown.
	Please upgrade as soon as possible. 
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      Refer to the 
      <A
	 HREF="ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.2pre5/CHANGES-kernel">
	CHANGLOG</a>
      for the latest changes/fixes.
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<p> Tue Dec 17 2002 We apologize for the delay in finalizing 1.2 but internal
      projects are taking most of the testing resources and we simply
      have not given this release the full suite of testing.
      Any help in testing is greatly appreciated.
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Latest Release is XFS 1.1</font></b></h2>
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<a href="1.1_release.html">Release 1.1</a>
      A bit old but very stable.
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XFS Installation</font></b></h2>

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SGI XFS Linux is available in the following versions:
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<ul>
<p>
<li>A fast-moving development tree, which is a current snapshot of
the XFS development code.  For information on installing the development code,
see <a href="devtree.html">Installing the XFS Development Tree</a></li>.
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<li>XFS Release 1.1.
This release runs on both x86 and
IA-64 architectures.
For information on installing XFS Linux Release 1.1,
see the <a href="1.1_release.html">
SGI XFS Linux Release 1.1</a> page.
</li>
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</ul>

<p>
For a listing of the current Linux XFS patch
sets that are available for downloading, see
<a href="patchlist.html">the Linux XFS patch sets</a>.
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<h2><font face="ARIAL NARROW,HELVETICA">
Working with XFS Filesystems
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Information on XFS filesystems is available
in the <a href="faq.html">XFS FAQ</a> and the
<a href="manpages.html">XFS man pages</a>.  The
following pages provide additional information:
<ul>
<li>For a listing of the capabilities and specifications
of XFS, see
<a href="features.html">XFS for Linux Features</a></li>.
<li>For general administration instructions, see
<a href="pr10_admin.html">Working with XFS Filesystems</a></li>.
<li>For instructions on converting a root partition
to  be an XFS root, see
<a href="xfsroot.html">Making a Linux XFS Root</a></li>.
<li>
For information on using the Data Management API (DMAPI)
within the XFS filesystem, see
<a href="dmapi.html">The Data Management API</a>.
</li>
</ul>

<p>
There are some minor differences in the implementation of Linux
XFS and IRIX XFS.  These differences are summarized in
<a href="irix-linux.html">Linux XFS and IRIX XFS</a></li>.
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<h2><font face="ARIAL NARROW,HELVETICA">
Questions and Problems
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If you have any questions or problems with the installation or
administration of XFS for Linux, you can
send email to 
<a href="mailto:linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com">linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com</a>.
  Note that this address is a public mailing list, please search the 
<A HREF="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&r=1&w=2">list archives</A>
 to see if your
question has been answered previously.


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To report bugs you encounter in XFS for Linux, use
<a href="http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/">
SGI's Bugzilla database</a>.


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