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<FONT FACE="ARIAL NARROW, HELVETICA" SIZE="5"><B>XFS News</B></FONT>
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July-2006
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		Several bulkstat related performance improvements, mostly
		improving DMAPI scans for filesystems with many millions
		of inodes, but also generic readahead improvements that
		will help other bulkstat users (e.g. xfsdump and quota).
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June-2006
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		First round of xfs_repair(8) performance improvements,
		and buffer/inode caching now done in libxfs in preparation
		for a multi-threaded version of xfs_repair at a later date.
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May-2006
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		Additional inheritable inode flag (nodefrag) to allow
		specified inodes to be skipped by xfs_fsr(8).
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May-2006
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		Updated the
		<A HREF="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#wcache">FAQ</A>
		to discuss device write barriers.
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Mar-2006
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		Incore extent management rework, more efficiently
		using memory when working with files with large
		numbers of extents.
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Feb-2006
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		Per-CPU superblock accounting, improving buffered I/O
		throughput significantly for parallel I/O workloads.
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Dec-2005
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		Rework the page writeout code paths within XFS to make
		better use of advances in 2.6 kernels (page clustering
		and larger block I/O requests).
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Dec-2005
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		SLES9 Service Pack 3 released with next set of XFS updates.
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Nov-2005
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		Support for block layer write barriers, allowing devices
		to be used with their write cache enabled (2.6+ kernels).
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Nov-2005
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		Preferred extent size allocator hint for the B+ tree
		allocator.
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Sep-2005
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		Support for inline extended attribute format 2, which
		significantly improves performance when using extended
		attributes.  Driven by needs of the Samba folks for
		Samba version 4, but also helpful to many other people.
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Jun-2005
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		Added support for project quota, and the ability to
		inherit project identifiers.  Provides the mechanism
		for implementing a form of directory tree quota.
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Jun-2005
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		Merged all XFS fixes since SP1 into SLES9 SP2.
		Thanks Andreas!
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Jun-2005
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<A HREF="http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/xfs/">XFS for FreeBSD</A> website
		announced (an independent porting effort not sponsored by SGI),
		supported by FreeBSD developers Craig Rodrigues and Alexander
		Kabaev.
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Jan-2005
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		Support use of 64 bit inode numbers with NFS.
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Dec-2004
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                Added ihashsize mount option and reworked inode hash
		sizing algorithms for improved scalability.
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Oct-2004
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                XFS web pages updated for the first time in several years. (*cough*)
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Oct-2004
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		Merged all XFS fixes since 2.6.5 into SLES9 Service Pack 1.
		Thanks Andreas!
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Feb-2004
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                XFS is merged into Marcelo's 2.4.25 kernel. 
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Dec-2003
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                2.6.0 kernel is released, with full XFS support. 
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Oct-2003
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                Added support for allocation groups larger than four
		gigabytes (up to 1 terabyte per AG supported now).
		Big scalability improvement for large filesystems.
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Sep-2003
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                Additional per-inode flags introduced (immutable,
		append-only, noatime, nodump, sync).
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Aug-2003
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                XFS 1.3 is released.
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Apr-2003
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                XFS merged in Alan Cox's 2.4.21-rc1-ac3 kernel. 
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Feb-2003
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                XFS 1.2 is released.
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Dec-2002
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        	Added support for sector sizes larger than 512 bytes.
		Particularly useful with MD RAID5 setups, significant
		performance win when a sector size matching the block
		size is used.
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Sep-2002
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        	XFS is merged into Linus' 2.5 development tree.
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Jun-2002
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        	Added support for version 2 logs, allowing larger
		incore log buffers and log write alignment.
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May-2002
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                XFS quota syscall support and VFS interfaces merged in 2.5. 
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Apr-2002
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		SuSE 8.0 is available with native XFS support.
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Apr-2002
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		XFS 1.1 is released.
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Feb-2002
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                Extended attribute syscalls and VFS interfaces merged in 2.5. 
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Nov-2001
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		Work starts on the 2.5 kernel tree.
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Nov-2001
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                XFS 1.0.2 Release
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Sep-2001
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		Mandrake 8.1 is available with native XFS support.
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Jul-2001
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            XFS 1.0.1 Release
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Jun-2001
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            Debian "Woody" XFS install discs are now available.  Thanks Zoltan!
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May-2001
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            XFS 1.0 patches now in the Debian testing ("Woody") distribution. 
            Thanks again to Ed Boraas.
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May-2001
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            XFS 1.0 patches now in the Debian unstable ("Sid") distribution. 
            Thanks go out to Ed Boraas.
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May-2001
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            Mandrake packages are now available, thanks to Chmouel Boudjnah. 
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May-2001
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            Debian kernel packages available from Marcos Pinto.  Thanks!
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May-2001
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            XFS 1.0 Release
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Sep-2000
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            XFS Beta Release
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Aug-2000
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	    Initial FAQ now available, thanks to Thomas Graichen.
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Jun-2000
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	    Usenix 2000: Porting XFS to Linux talk
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Jun-2000
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	    Usenix 2000 XFS pre-beta ISO image available
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Apr-2000
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		Web interface to CVS repository now available
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Mar-2000
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		XFS source code officially available! 
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