From: Yi Li <yili@sgi.com> To: "'lwn@lwn.net'" <lwn@lwn.net> Subject: XFS file system Pre-Release Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:31:28 -0800 Dear Editor, Below please find a submission for kernel development news or announcement. Thanks very much for your time and help. Please let me know if you have any questions. Yi SGI has made available the pre-release version 0.9 of its high-end XFS file system ported to Linux®. Code and detailed information are at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/prerelease.html. Widely recognized as one of the industry's leading high-performance journaled file systems, XFS is a mature technology that has been proven on thousands of IRIX systems for over six years. SGI has open-sourced and optimized XFS for Linux users, providing the same flexible, high-capacity, and reliable file system that is available under IRIX. Thanks to the extensive interest and contributions from the community, the XFS file system for Linux has made significant progress since its Beta release in September 2000. Although there are still some features to be finalized, the pre-release 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. SGI XFS Pre-release 0.9 is available in the following three fashions: · As a patch against linux-2.4.0. · As a set of RPMs. · As a complete system installer which works with Red Hat 7.0 media to run XFS on the root partition. We will be demonstrating XFS as the root file system for high availability and clustering solutions in SGI systems at LinuxWorld New York from January 31 to February 2. Free XFS CDs will also be available at LinuxWorld. For more information on the open source project of XFS for Linux, please see http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/index.html. -------------------------------------------------------------- Yi Li Product Manager File Systems and Networking, SGI Phone: 650-933-6639 Fax: 650-933-0701