Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:05:56 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> To: Dom Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SGI, XFS and OSS? Message-ID: <37456844.3EE57808@pipeline.ch> References: <E10knhm-000CNE-00@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk>
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Dom Mitchell wrote: > > On 21 May 1999, Christian Weisgerber proclaimed: > > For those of us who don't use Irix systems, much less administrate any, > > could somebody sum up what's so remarkable about XFS? > > > > Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> wrote: > > > > > XFS is -FAST- > > > > Anything else? > > Basically, it's a transactional logging filesystem (fast recovery, fast > metadata updates), like LFS was going to be. It also has Btree based > directories (as opposed to FFS's linear directories) which can make > things quicker. > > Many other filesystems also have these attributes. For example HPFS > (OS2) and NTFS (WinNT). However, XFS appears to be well done and > designed with Unix in mind. Have a look at http://www.sgi.com/products/remanufactured/challenge/ti_xfs.html and http://www.sgi.com/Technology/xfs-whitepaper.html -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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