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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Sunday, August 10, 2003 4:23:54 am | by JamesBraid | Revert |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Friday, November 15, 2002 12:51:24 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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-XFS is [SGI]'s [FileSystem|FileSystems] optimised
for "Enterprise use"
. What this means in practise is that it scales very well
to Stupidly Huge Disks
, with huge directories
and huge files
. It has some very interesting features, like dedicated high performance I/O areas, allowing you to dedicate part of your disk to files that you want very low latency to access, for example video files you are currently editing
.
+XFS is [SGI]'s [FileSystem|FileSystems] designed from the ground up
for massive filesystems and high performance, especially on large multi processor configurations
. SGI have ported the original [IRIX] code
to Linux
, and it has been merged into the 2
.6 tree
.
-XFS isn't yet in the main kernel tree
, which is unfortunate
, it appears
to be a
very good mature file system
.
+It has some very interesting features
, like dedicated high performance I/O areas
, allowing you
to dedicate part of your disk to files that you want
very low latency to access, for example video files you are currently editing. Sadly, most of the really neat stuff (guarenteed rate I/O, realtime subvolumes) is still only available [IRIX].
+
+Regular snapshots for the 2.4 series are available from [http://oss.sgi.com]
.
