[Sheflug] XFS for Linux

[Richard Ibbotson <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Dear All

This just came to me so I thought you might be interested.....



SGI is pleased to announce the 1.0 release of XFS, high-performance
journaled file system for Linux.

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/

XFS is widely recognized as the industry-leading high-performance
 file system, providing rapid recovery from system crashes and the
ability to support extremely large disk farms. XFS is the first
journaled file system for Linux available today that has a proven
track record in production environments since December 1994.

XFS Linux 1.0 is released for the Linux 2.4 kernel and offers the
following advanced features:

        * Fast recovery after a system crash or power failure, NO
 fsck! * Journaling for guaranteed file system 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 file system)
        * On-disk compatibility with IRIX XFS file systems

A complete toolset including:

        * dump/restore support including all XFS file system features
such as
ACLs and quotas
        * Repair utility, file system editor, and growing the file
system
        * ACL editing utility
        * Extended attribute editing utility

Excellent integration with other Linux subsystems:
        * NFS version 2 and 3 server support
        * Root file system and lilo support
        * Software raid integration with md and lvm packages
        * Mount by label and mount by uuid


-- 
Richard
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