Messages in this thread | | | From | Jim Mostek <> | Subject | Re: SGI's XFS DONATED AS OPEN SOURCE!!!!!!!!! | Date | Thu, 27 May 1999 12:35:24 -0500 (CDT) |
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> >Hi! > >> That's it. No more, no less. You can read more here: >> >> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,36807,00.html?st.ne.fd.tohhed.ni > >No need to shout, we have all seen it on ./ ;-)... > >BTW I would say hooray at the time someone makes it working with >Linux. Having filesystem is nice, but integrating XFS into linux may >be well more work than writing journaling filesystem from scratch. (Or >maybe SGI is going to do work for us?) There are some non-trivial >issues buffer cache.
SGI is doing some page cache/buffer cache internally to support XFS. As far as I know, this will be part of the Open Source'ing (I haven't heard differently). SGI is pumping people power into getting XFS (and other stuff) into Linux.
Jim
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