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OSS.SGI.com: SGI XFS Pre-Release 0.9

[ Thanks to Russell Cattelan for this
link. ]

“SGI has made available pre-release version 0.9 of its high-end
XFS file system ported to Linux. As a leading supporter of Linux
and the open source movement, SGI is providing business-critical
infrastructure for Linux through porting solid and high-performance
software such as XFS to Linux and making it available to the
community.”

“Existing file systems for Linux entail significant limitations
in scalability and stability. Unlike other journaled file
systems currently under development, XFS is a mature technology
that has been proven on thousands of IRIX systems for over six
years. It is widely recognized as the industry’s leading
high-performance file system. SGI has now optimized XFS for Linux
users
, providing the same flexible, high-capacity, and
reliable file system that is available under IRIX. Features such as
instantaneous recovery from disk crashes and the ability to support
extremely large disk farms will establish XFS as the production
quality file system for Linux. Furthermore, porting XFS to Linux is
helping advance some of the Linux kernel infrastructure such as the
VM subsystem and the block device interface.”

“Thanks to the extensive interest and contributions from the
community, the XFS filesystem for Linux has made significant
progress since its Beta release in September 2000. Although there
are still some features to be finalized, the Beta code is currently
stable in a majority of normal environments. We welcome and
encourage interested users to try out the code aggressively in your
test environments so that we can work through the final stage of
the development and bug fixes to meet your production needs.”

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