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.