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Tuesday May 1 2001: SGI is pleased to announce the 1.0 release of XFStm,
a high-performance journaled filesystem for Linux.
(Quick Jump to download & install information.)
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.
XFS Linux 1.0 is released for the Linux 2.4 kernel and offers the following:
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advanced features:
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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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Direct I/O
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Space preallocation
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Transactionally recorded quotas
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Access control lists and Extended attributes
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Infrastructure for XDSM support
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Excellent overall performance
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Excellent scalability (64 bit filesystem)
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A complete toolset including:
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dump/restore support including all XFS filesystem features such as
ACLs and quotas
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Repair utility, filesystem editor, and growing the filesystem
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Modified Red Hat installer to allow system installation on XFS
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ACL editing utility
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Excellent integration with other Linux subsystems:
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NFS server support
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Root filesystem and lilo support
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Software raid integration with md and lvm packages
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Mount by label and mount by uuid
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Maintains on-disk compatibility with XFS filesystems created under
IRIX
XFS is licensed under GPL.
More information is available on the
SGI XFS Linux Release 1.0 page.
For information on the software changes that have been made
since Pre-Release 0.10,
see the
XFS for Linux Release 1.0 New Features page.
For a more extensive listing of the capabilities and specifications
of XFS, see
XFS for Linux Features.
Source Code:
A complete linux 2.4.x-based tree including the XFS filesystem is available
for CVS checkout.
Two distinct trees are available:
- linux-2.4-xfs: fast moving development tree
- linux-2.4-xfs-r1.0: XFS Linux Release 1.0
Please refer to the CVS instructions
for details.
CVSup
a much faster "File Distribution System" than cvs
CVSWEB
a web based source tree browser
Patches and RPMs are also available, please see the
SGI XFS Linux Release 1.0 page for details.
Man Pages:
XFS man pages are available in html.
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