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XFS:A high-performance journaling file system
URL: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
XFS Beta Release
XFS for Linux has been Beta released.
More information is available on this page.
XFS Features:
Sub-second filesystem recovery after crashes or power failures (never wait
for long fscks again)
64-bit scalability: millions of terabytes, millions of files, and a million
files per directory (no more 2 GB limits)
High reliability and performance from journaling and other advanced algorithms
Source Code:
A complete linux 2.4.0-test5 tree including the XFS filesystem is available
for cvs checkout.
The code is Beta quality and although the basic functionality is
operational, it may hang or crash your machine.
Please refer to the CVS instructions
for details.
There is also a web interface
to CVS available.
Man Pages:
XFS man pages are now available in
html.
Further information:
At the Ottawa Linux Symposium, an updated presentation on porting XFS to
Linux was given:
-
Porting XFS to Linux (July 2000) [html]
At the USENIX Technical Conference, SGI presented the following:
-
Porting the SGI XFS File System to Linux (July 2000) -
paper [html]
and presentation [html].
At the Atlanta Linux Showcase, SGI presented the following paper on the
port of XFS to Linux:
- Porting the SGI XFS File System to Linux (October 1999)
[ps]
[pdf]
At the 6th Linux Kongress & the Linux Storage Management Workshop (LSMW)
in Germany in September, 1999, SGI had a few presentations including the
following:
- SGI's port of XFS to Linux (September 1999)
[html]
- Overview of DMF (September 1999)
[html]
At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in August 1999, SGI published:
- An Open Source XFS data sheet (August 1999)
[pdf]
From the 1996 USENIX conference:
- An XFS white paper
[html]
You can also check out the following:
- An IRIX-XFS data sheet (July 1999)
[pdf]
- Selected original 1993 XFS design documents
[ps]
[pdf]
-
The Original XFS white paper,
[html]
back from the early days when it didn't have quota
support. Yes, it has it now.
-
Press release #1: SGI Contributes World's Most Scalable File System
Technology to Open Source Community
[html]
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Some related discussions on the Linux Kernel Mailing List
[text]
-
A Linux World Article
[html]
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