“Silicon Graphics began its conversion to the open source
mind-set this week, releasing portions of its XFS code under the
general public license (GPL).
The decision to make XFS open-source was announced in May, and
the first release of code was announced Tuesday at the Linux World
conference by Dave McAllister, SGI director of strategic
technologies.”
“XFS is a ‘journaled’ file system produced by SGI. Linux
requires a file system for its operation; a journaled version keeps
track of activity, letting the file system be restored in the event
of a crash.”
“The first open source subset of XFS was posted to the Web late
Monday, McAllister said. The code is available for downloading from
the Web.
Chunks of XFS are copyrighted by the likes of Bell Labs and the
University of California at Berkeley, and can’t be released as open
source.”