XFS: A high-performance journaling file system

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 XFS for Linux Features.

XFS is licensed under the GPL.

Release 1.0.2 of SGI XFS for Linux is now available.

XFS Installation

SGI XFS Linux is available in the following versions:

• A fast-moving development tree, which is a current snapshot of the XFS development code. For information on installing the development code, see Installing the XFS Development Tree
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• XFS release 1.0.2. This release runs on both x86 and IA-64 architectures. For information on installing XFS Linux Release 1.0.2, see the SGI XFS Linux Release 1.0.2 page.
• XFS release 1.0.1. This earlier release runs exclusively on the x86 architecture. For information on installing XFS Linux Release 1.0.1, see the SGI XFS Linux Release 1.0.1 page.

For a listing of the current Linux XFS patch sets that are available for downloading, see the Linux XFS patch sets.

Working with XFS Filesystems

• For a listing of the capabilities and specifications of XFS, see XFS for Linux Features
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• For general administration instructions, see Working with XFS Filesystems
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• For instructions on converting a root partition to be an XFS root, see Making a Linux XFS Root
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• For information on using the Data Management API (DMAPI) within the XFS filesystem, see The Data Management API.

There are some minor differences in the implementation of Linux XFS and IRIX XFS. These differences are summarized in Linux XFS and IRIX XFS.

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