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  SGI - Developer Central Open Source | XFS
XFS is a full 64-bit filesystem, and thus is capable of handling filesystems as large as a million terabytes.
XFS also continues to evolve to match the capabilities of the hardware it is being deployed on.
XFS was the first filesystem to implement delayed space allocation for buffered writes, supports direct I/O, provides an optional realtime allocator, and is able to align allocations based on the geometry of the underlying storage device.
oss.sgi.com /projects/xfs   (1635 words)

  
  XFS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
XFS is the oldest journaling file system available for UNIX systems, and has a mature, stable and well-debugged codebase.
XFS provides journaling for file system metadata, where file system updates are first written to a serial journal before the actual disk blocks are updated.
XFS does not provide direct support for snapshots, as it expects the snapshot process to be implemented by the volume manager.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/XFS   (1860 words)

  
 XFS: Tutte le informazioni su XFS su Encyclopedia.it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
XFS: Tutte le informazioni su XFS su Encyclopedia.it
XFS è un file system di tipo journaled con indirizzamento a 64 bit sviluppato da SGI per il sistema operativo IRIX, recentemente portato per la piattaforma libera GNU Linux con una sua completa introduzione nel kernel Linux.
XFS è un file system maturo e scalabile con un sistema di journaling che minimizza l'impatto di read/write massive: usa un'efficiente struttura a tabelle che permette una rapida ricerca e altrettanto rapida nuova allocazione di spazio.
www.encyclopedia.it /x/xf/xfs.html   (81 words)

  
 Common threads: Advanced filesystem implementor's guide, Part 9
Thus, XFS was born, and was made available to the computing public with the release of IRIX 5.3 in 1994.
The arrival of XFS for Linux is exciting, primarily because it provides the Linux community with a robust, refined, and very feature-rich filesystem that's capable of scaling to meet the toughest storage challenges.
XFS consistently won all tests that involved manipulating large files, which should be expected since it has been designed and tuned over the years to do this very well.
www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/library/l-fs9.html   (2218 words)

  
 Scalability in the XFS File System
XFS has been shipping to customers since December of 1994 in a version of IRIX 5.3, and we are continuing to improve its performance and add features in upcoming releases.
XFS is designed to run well over large, striped disk arrays where the aggregate bandwidth of the underlying drives ranges in the tens to hundreds of megabytes per second.
XFS is designed to perform well on both the desktop and the server, and it is this focus on scalability that distinguishes XFS from the rest of the file system crowd.
oss.sgi.com /projects/xfs/papers/xfs_usenix/index.html   (10244 words)

  
 SGI - Developer Central Open Source | Linux XFS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
XFS is a huge amount of kernel code which means that your kernel is probably to big to fit on a boot floppy together with a inital ramdisk and scsi drivers.
XFS is using an extra ioctl to set the block size of the device, it is not implemented for this device.
Since XFS does not write data out to disk immediately unless you tell it to with fsync or an O_SYNC open (the same is true of other filesystems), you are looking at an inode which was flushed out to disk, but for which the data was never flushed to disk.
linux.math.tifr.res.in /programming-doc/xfs/faq.html   (6293 words)

  
 Interview With the People Behind JFS, ReiserFS & XFS - OSNews.com
XFS is an excellent file system, and there is an important area where XFS is higher performance than we are.
XFS is slower than reiserfs for the typical file size distributions on "typical" file systems, and I encourage you to examine our benchmarks, where you will see that they are faster for very large file writes, and slower for typical file sizes.
XFS is going to go into Linux 2.5/2.6 (they make changes to the kernel that are considered 2.5 material, and thus are not in 2.4), and I just bet you that by 2.6 they will have improved their "typical" file size performance by the time 2.6 ships.
www.osnews.com /story.php?news_id=69   (3881 words)

  
 [XFS] About Us
Originally all of the founders of the XFS were members of a Bridge Commander clan known as the X-Clan Starships.
Since the founding of the XFS, the clan was always intended for the members to hold power and to decide the fate of the clan.
XFS wanted to ensure that the members would always be in control of their clan and that no matter what, the members would be able to have a say in clan operations.
www.xfs-space.net /aboutus.htm   (752 words)

  
 LWN: Patch: XFS filesystem support
The actual XFS code is to big to be posted as patch to lkml so I've uploaded a tarball at kernel.orrg: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hch/xfs/xfs-2.5.33-20020905.tar.gz ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hch/xfs/xfs-2.5.33-20020905.tar.bz2 that can be just unpacked in the toplevel kernel source directory.
XFS considers quota + information as filesystem metadata and uses journaling to provide a + higher level guarantee of consistency.
XFS quota can be used either + with or without the generic quota support enabled (CONFIG_QUOTA) - + they are completely independent subsystems.
lwn.net /Articles/9181   (1442 words)

  
 SGI - Developer Central Open Source | XFS
Barry Naujok has documented the XFS ondisk format which is a very useful reference.
Since XFS does not write data out immediately unless you tell it to with fsync, an O_SYNC or O_DIRECT open (the same is true of other filesystems), you are looking at an inode which was flushed out, but whose data was not.
For example, the tail of the log is moved when we are notified that a metadata write is completed to disk and we won't be able to guarantee that if the metadata is on a drive with the write cache enabled.
oss.sgi.com /projects/xfs/faq.html   (2612 words)

  
 Common threads: Advanced filesystem implementor's guide, Part 9
The arrival of XFS for Linux is exciting, primarily because it provides the Linux community with a robust, refined, and very feature-rich filesystem that's capable of scaling to meet the toughest storage challenges.
XFS consistently won all tests that involved manipulating large files, which should be expected since it has been designed and tuned over the years to do this very well.
XFS procrastinates, delaying this decision to the last possible moment, right before this data is actually written to disk.
www.ibm.com /developerworks/library/l-fs9.html   (2226 words)

  
 :: Mad Penguin Design Series : File System Design part 1: XFS
However, in XFS these inodes are stored in B+Trees and actually are stored in two B+Trees, one for free inodes and the other for used inodes.
XFS waits as long as possible to actually write data to the disc.
The only "odd" thing about the XFS superblock is that because of where it is in the partition (right at the beginning), you cannot install a boot block to an XFS partition.
madpenguin.org /cms/?m=show&id=6045&page=2   (1473 words)

  
 xFS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
We are currently designing a serverless file system called xFS which will attempt to provide low latency, high bandwidth access to file system data by distributing the functionality of the server among the clients.
By reducing the amount of redundant caching among clients and allowing the memory of idle machines to be utilized, cooperative caching can lower the latency of reads by reducing number of requests which must go to disk.
The function of locating data in xFS is distributed by having each client responsible for servicing requests on a subset of the files.
now.cs.berkeley.edu /Xfs/xfs.html   (303 words)

  
 SGI TPL (IRIX 5.3: Administrative/XFS_AG - Chapter 1. Introduction to XFS, XLV, and GRIO)
XFS is designed for use on most Silicon Graphics systems—from desktop systems to supercomputer systems.
XFS is designed to be a very high performance filesystem.
When XFS filesystems are used on XLV volumes, each logical volume can contain up to three subvolumes: data (required), log, and real-time.
techpubs.sgi.com /library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=0530&db=bks&srch=efs&fname=/SGI_Admin/XFS_AG/sgi_html/ch01.html   (974 words)

  
 XFS: It's worth the wait
XFS is able to accomplish this fast recovery by logging all file transactions with information on free lists, inodes, directories, and so on.
After a crash, the logs are analyzed, and XFS can quickly determine which transactions must be done in order to synchronize the file system to the state it was in prior to the crash.
Because the Linux implementation of XFS is still in the development stages, the features listed may or may not be applicable to the Open XFS for Linux specification.
www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com /netos/article.php/623661   (1864 words)

  
 XFS - Computing Knowledgebase
XFS is a high-performance journaling file system created by SGI (formerly Silicon Graphics Inc.) for their IRIX UNIX implementation.
In May 2000, SGI released XFS under an open source license.
Like ReiserFS (but unlike Ext3), XFS uses a logical journal - it does not journal literal filesystem blocks, but instead logs metadata changes.
pc.wikia.com /wiki/XFS   (226 words)

  
 Linux.com - Red Hat's xfs
Red Hat's xfs includes the xfsft patch set which in turn is built upon the FreeType Font library.
xfs is able to serve both TrueType and Type 1 fonts, as well as legacy X fonts.
This is a reference to the socket where xfs is listening.
www.linux.com /howtos/FDU/xfs.shtml   (356 words)

  
 xfs
-daemon Instructs xfs to fork and go into the background automatically at startup If this option is not specified, xfs will run as a regular process (unless xfs was built to daemonize by default).
This has been implemented for security reasons, as xfs may have undiscovered buffer over- flows or other paths for possible exploit, both local and remote.
-nodaemon When xfs is built to daemonize (run in the background) by default, this prevents that and starts xfs up as a regular pro- cess.
linuxcommand.org /man_pages/xfs1.html   (757 words)

  
 www.centos.org - Forums - General Support - Was XFS support removed from the 'Plus' kernel?
It was nice from the perspective where you could have the modules installed for each kernel installed, but in the case where you just wanted the updated kernel to have the updated driver without having to do anything extra it was a pain.
The XFS stuff has been moved to module form that can be used in both the standard kernel and the plus kernel.
I'm not pissing and moaning about an un-supported kernel, but when Johnny 1st mentioned the availability of an un-supported but additional kernel option, he specifically said XFS support was enabled.
www.centos.org /modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=threaded&order=DESC&topic_id=5054&forum=27&move=next&topic_time=1157137362   (641 words)

  
 :: CEN :: Workshop on eXtensions for Financial Services (XFS)
The XFS Workshop is a continuation of the Banking Solution Vendors Council (BSVC) workshop and maintains a technical commitment to the Win 32 API.
However, the XFS Workshop has extended the franchise of multi vendor software by encouraging the participation of both banks and vendors to take part in the deliberations of the creation of an industry standard.
The fundamental aims of the XFS Workshop are to promote a clear and unambiguous specification for both service providers and application developers.
www.cenorm.be /cenorm/businessdomains/businessdomains/isss/activity/wsxfs.asp   (182 words)

  
 Nabble - XFS Rocks!
XFS buffers a lot of stuff so like Reiser it may not be good for certain
We had a long flamefest on the topic of XFS and its buffering habits.
XFS has the honor of being the oldest (and some say most stable) of
www.nabble.com /XFS-Rocks!-t705848.html   (472 words)

  
 Linux Today - SGI Contributes World's Most Scalable File System Technology to Open Source Community
XFS is a key component of the company's highly successful IRIX® operating system and is the world's most scalable and robust journaled file sharing technology.
XFS is designed to handle rapid growth far into the 21st century.
XFS has the ability to dynamically allocate index space for files, enabling systems to efficiently scale to support large numbers of files.
linuxtoday.com /stories/6107.html   (1317 words)

  
 xfs-conversion
To explain where XFS is in Debian in official terms..
He already created a rescue disk based on kernel 2.4.14 and XFS 1.0.2 and is going to create the root and drivers floppies, too.
His aim is to unify his work with Ionut Georgescu's [8]Debian installer with SGI XFS support to offer the XFS journaling file system as an option at installation time.
linuxmafia.com /faq/Filesystems/xfs-conversion.html   (1145 words)

  
 XFS vs. ext3
Basically, XFS hath kick-ed the *ss of ext3 under conditions that are, for our company, critical.) Some listees might be interested in some testing I did the other day, XFS vs. ext3.
After the first few clear XFS tests I put extra load on the machine while the tests were running to see if that would make XFS hiccough - copying large files around internally, spawning CPU-eating programs.
XFS truly does, in the patois of the time, r0x0r...
www.redhat.com /archives/ext3-users/2003-February/msg00122.html   (436 words)

  
 Experience with a Distributed File System Implementation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Second, xFS implements a complex, multithreaded service that is tightly coupled with the underlying operating system.
Furthermore, the xFS system tested the limits of abstractions such as threads, RPC, and vnodes that have traditionally been used in building distributed file systems.
Based on our experience, we suggest several strategies that should be followed by those wishing to build distributed operating systems services, and we also indicate several areas where programming tools and operating system abstractions might be improved.
www.cs.princeton.edu /~rywang/berkeley/papers/spe98.html   (134 words)

  
 NCR - APTRA Self-Service Solutions - WOSA, XFS & CEN?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Although the Extensions for Financial Services define a general architecture for access to service providers from Windows-based applications, the initial focus has been on providing access to peripheral devices that are unique to financial institutions.
Since these devices are often complex, difficult to manage and proprietary, the development of a standardized interface between them and both Windows-based applications and Windows operating systems can offer financial institutions and their solution providers immediate enhancements to productivity and flexibility.
In 1991, the Banking Solutions Vendor Council was initiated by Microsoft with the aim of providing an architecture to allow banking peripherals from various hardware vendors to be supported in a uniform way.
www.ncr.com /products/software/wosa_xfs_cen.htm   (378 words)

  
 Linux: Introduction - Linux XFS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
From the XFS FAQ: "XFS is a journalling filesystem developed by SGI and used in SGI's IRIX operating system.
The project has come to a point (actually nearly a year ago at the time of this writing) that this could actually be a reallity.
However, the XFS Linux port is written by humans and thus, there is the chance that mistakes, bugs, etc. might happen from time to time.
www.linuxforum.com /linux-xfs/x30.html   (488 words)

  
 XFS(1) manual page
Instructs xfs to fork and go into the background automatically at startup If this option is not specified, xfs will run as a regular process (unless xfs was built to daemonize by default).
This has been implemented for security reasons, as xfs may have undiscovered buffer overflows or other paths for possible exploit, both local and remote.
When xfs is built to daemonize (run in the background) by default, this prevents that and starts xfs up as a regular process.
www.xfree86.org /current/xfs.1.html   (667 words)

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