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XFS Talks, Papers, Articles, ...

Barry Naujok has documented most of the XFS ondisk format, including examples on how to traverse the structure and diagnose ondisk problems:

XFS Filesystem Structure [pdf]
- At the Ottawa Linux Symposium (July 2006), Dave Chinner presented a paper on filesystem scalability in Linux 2.6 kernels:
  - High Bandwidth Filesystems on Large Systems (July 2006) [paper] [presentation]
  In July 2006, SGI storage marketing updated the XFS datasheet:
  - Open Source XFS for Linux [pdf]
  At UKUUG 2003, Christoph Hellwig presented a talk on XFS:
  - XFS for Linux (July 2003) [pdf] [html]
  Originally published in Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2002 Usenix Annual Technical Conference:
  - Filesystem Performance and Scalability in Linux 2.4.17 (June 2002) [pdf]
  At the Ottawa Linux Symposium, an updated presentation on porting XFS to Linux was given:
  - Porting XFS to Linux (July 2000) [html]
  At the Atlanta Linux Showcase, SGI presented the following paper on the port of XFS to Linux:
  - Porting the SGI XFS File System to Linux (October 1999) [ps] [pdf]
  At the 6th Linux Kongress & the Linux Storage Management Workshop (LSMW) in Germany in September, 1999, SGI had a few presentations including the following:
  - SGI's port of XFS to Linux (September 1999) [html]
  - Overview of DMF (September 1999) [html]
  At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in August 1999, SGI published:
  - An Open Source XFS data sheet (August 1999) [pdf]
  From the 1996 USENIX conference:
  - An XFS white paper [html]
  Other historical articles, press-releases, etc:
  - IBM's Advanced Filesystem Implementor's Guide has a chapter Introducing XFS [html]
  - An editorial titled Tired of fscking? Try a journaling filesystem!, Freshmeat (February 2001) [html]
  - Who give a fsck about filesystems provides an overview of the Linux 2.4 filesystems [html]
  - Journal File Systems in issue 55 of Linux Gazette provides a comparison of journaled filesystems.
  - The original XFS beta release announcement was published in Linux Today (September 2000) [html]
  - XFS: It's worth the wait was published on EarthWeb (July 2000) [html]
  - An IRIX-XFS data sheet (July 1999) [pdf]
  - The Getting Started with XFS book (1994) [pdf]
  - Original XFS design documents (1993) [ps] [pdf]
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