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XFS: A high-performance journaling filesystem

Consistent with our recent letter to the open source community (http://oss.sgi.com/letter_100103.txt) SGI has removed and replaced a trivial number of code segments in XFS that may arguably be related to UNIX code. These changes are in three areas: macros used to define and manipulate the extended inode mode bits (in xfs_vnode.h), macros for filesystem quota operations (in dqblk_xfs.h), and the data copying function uiomove() (in move.c). These revisions also required insignificant changes to other files that interact with the revised code. We encourage you to move promptly to this version of XFS.

This code is now available for download from our open source repository at http://oss.sgi.com, Initially we have provided updated kernel patches for recent 2.4 series kernels, updated user space tools, and an updated version of the XFS 1.3 release. The CVS repositories for the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels are also available. Please contact xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com. with any questions about this XFS update.

SGI XFS Linux is available in the following versions:

XFS Release 1.3.1
This release is available for stock 2.4.21, as well as the Red Hat Linux 9 2.4.20-20.9 kernel. For information on the many changes since XFS Linux release 1.2, please see the XFS 1.3 Changelog.

The XFS development tree
This is a current snapshot of the XFS development code. For information on installing the development code, see Installing the XFS Development Tree.

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

For information on the administration of XFS filesystems, see Working with XFS Filesystems.

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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