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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.

XFS 1.2 Pre-release #5 Available

The latest patches and rpm's are ready for testing. ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.2pre3/

This fixes a corruption problem on the root filesystem at shutdown. Please upgrade as soon as possible.

Refer to the CHANGLOG for the latest changes/fixes.

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.

Latest Release is XFS 1.1

Release 1.1 A bit old but very stable.

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

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 SGI XFS Linux Release 1.1 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

Information on XFS filesystems is available in the XFS FAQ and the XFS man pages. The following pages provide additional information:

For a listing of the capabilities and specifications of XFS, see XFS for Linux Features
For general administration instructions, see Working with XFS Filesystems
For instructions on converting a root partition to be an XFS root, see Making a Linux XFS Root
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.

Questions and Problems

If you have any questions or problems with the installation or administration of XFS for Linux, you can send email to linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com. Note that this address is a public mailing list, please search the list archives to see if your question has been answered previously.

To report bugs you encounter in XFS for Linux, use SGI's Bugzilla database.
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