XFS on Linux is expected to have a beta release during the summer of 2000 with a production quality release a couple of months later. (These seasons are relative to the northern hemisphere). The source code was released Open Source during March of 2000. People are encouraged to download and try the code. People should be cautioned that the code is somewhat experimental as development is ongoing (6/2/2000).

Most of the file system's functionality is working and demonstrable. There are some IRIX'ism that are not working, yet, like extended attributes and a complete Direct I/O implementation. One part missing from Linux implmentation is quotas. See Work Items
for the current work being done.

Some features recently integrated into XFS include, delayed allocation writes, one endian format (BIG), placing the vnode into the Linux inode, and many bug fixed including some corruption problems.

XFS' fast recovery has been executed many times by shutting off the machine while the file system is active. The file system recovers quickly (in about 1 second) after the machine reboots. This is independent of the file system's size. Recovery occurs when the file system is mounted. <& xfsTemplate,bottom=>1 &>