From:	 Yi Li <yili@sgi.com>
To:	 "'letters@lwn.net'" <letters@lwn.net>
Subject: SGI announces XFS filesystem 1.0 release
Date:	 Tue, 1 May 2001 02:03:50 -0700


May 1 2001
 
SGI announces the 1.0 release of XFS, a high-performance journaled
filesystem for Linux. XFS is widely recognized as the industry-leading
high-performance filesystem, providing rapid recovery from system crashes
and the ability to support extremely large disk farms. XFS is the first
journaled filesystem for Linux available today that has a proven track
record in production environments since late 1994. 

XFS 1.0 is available for download at not cost at
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/. It is released for the Linux 2.4 kernel
and offers the following advantages.

Advanced features:

        * Fast recovery after a system crash or power failure, NO fsck!
        * Journalling for guaranteed filesystem integrity 
        * Direct I/O 
        * Space preallocation 
        * Transactionally recorded quotas 
        * Access control lists and Extended attributes 
        * Infrastructure for XDSM support (DMAPI) 
        * Excellent overall performance 
        * Excellent scalability (64 bit filesystem) 
	  * On-disk compatibility with IRIX XFS filesystems

A complete toolset including: 

        * DUMP/RESTORE support including all XFS filesystem features such as
ACLs and quotas 
        * Repair utility, filesystem editor, and growing the file system 
        * ACL editing utility 

Excellent integration with other Linux subsystems: 

        * NFS version 2 and 3 server support 
        * Root filesystem and lilo support 
        * Software raid integration with md and lvm packages 
        * Mount by label and mount by uuid 

SGI is also providing a modified Red Hat Linux anaconda based installer. The
installer handles all the details of setting up a Red Hat Linux 7.1 system
running entirely on XFS, or a combination of XFS and ext2 file systems.