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Mar-2006
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Incore extent management rework, allowing for more
efficient memory footprints for files having large
numbers of extents.
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Feb-2006
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Per-CPU superblock accounting, improving buffered I/O
throughput significantly for parallel I/O workloads.
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Dec-2005
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Rework the page writeout code paths within XFS to make
better use of advances in 2.6 kernels (page clustering
and larger block I/O requests).
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Dec-2005
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SLES9 Service Pack 3 released with next set of XFS updates.
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Nov-2005
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Support for block layer write barriers, allowing devices
to be used with their write cache enabled (2.6+ kernels).
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Nov-2005
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Preferred extent size allocator hint for the B+ tree allocator
(no longer only implemented for the realtime allocator).
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Sep-2005
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Support for inline extended attribute format 2, which
significantly improves performance when using extended
attributes. Driven by needs of the Samba community for
Samba4, but also helps many other people.
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Jun-2005
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Added support for project quota, and the ability to
inherit project identifiers. Provides the mechanism
for implementing a form of directory tree quota.
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Jun-2005
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Merged all XFS fixes since SP1 into SLES9 SP2.
Thanks Andreas!
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Jun-2005
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XFS for FreeBSD website
announced (an independent porting effort not sponsored by SGI),
supported by FreeBSD developers Craig Rodrigues and Alexander
Kabaev.
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Jan-2005
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Support use of 64 bit inode numbers with NFS.
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Dec-2004
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Added ihashsize mount option and reworked inode hash
sizing algorithms for improved scalability.
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Oct-2004
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XFS web pages updated for the first time in several years. (*cough*)
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Oct-2004
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Merged all XFS fixes since 2.6.5 into SLES9 Service Pack 1.
Thanks Andreas!
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Feb-2004
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XFS is merged into Marcelo's 2.4.25 kernel.
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Dec-2003
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2.6.0 kernel is released, with full XFS support.
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Oct-2003
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Added support for allocation groups larger than four
gigabytes (up to 1 terabyte per AG supported now).
Big scalability improvement for large filesystems.
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Aug-2003
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XFS 1.3 is released.
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Apr-2003
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XFS merged in Alan Cox's 2.4.21-rc1-ac3 kernel.
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Feb-2003
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XFS 1.2 is released.
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Dec-2002
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Added support for sector sizes larger than 512 bytes.
Particularly useful with MD RAID5 setups, significant
performance win when a sector size matching the block
size is used.
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Sep-2002
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XFS is merged into Linus' 2.5 development tree.
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Jun-2002
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Added support for version 2 logs, allowing larger
incore log buffers and log write alignment.
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May-2002
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XFS quota syscall support and VFS interfaces merged in 2.5.
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Apr-2002
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SuSE 8.0 is available with native XFS support.
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Apr-2002
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XFS 1.1 is released.
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Feb-2002
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Extended attribute syscalls and VFS interfaces merged in 2.5.
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Nov-2001
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Work starts on the 2.5 kernel tree.
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Nov-2001
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XFS 1.0.2 Release
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Sep-2001
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Mandrake 8.1 is available with native XFS support.
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Jul-2001
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XFS 1.0.1 Release
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Jun-2001
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Debian "Woody" XFS install discs are now available. Thanks Zoltan!
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May-2001
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XFS 1.0 patches now in the Debian testing ("Woody") distribution.
Thanks again to Ed Boraas.
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May-2001
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XFS 1.0 patches now in the Debian unstable ("Sid") distribution.
Thanks go out to Ed Boraas.
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May-2001
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Mandrake packages are now available, thanks to Chmouel Boudjnah.
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May-2001
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Debian kernel packages available from Marcos Pinto. Thanks!
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May-2001
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XFS 1.0 Release
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Sep-2000
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XFS Beta Release
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Aug-2000
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Initial FAQ now available, thanks to Thomas Graichen.
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Jun-2000
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Usenix 2000: Porting XFS to Linux talk
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Jun-2000
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Usenix 2000 XFS pre-beta ISO image available
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Apr-2000
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Web interface to CVS repository now available
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Mar-2000
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XFS source code officially available!
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