Re: [OT] SGI to OpenSource XFS

Stefan Monnier (monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu)
23 May 1999 18:13:45 -0400


>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Jakma <Paul.Jakma@Digital.com> writes:
> Apparently SGI will be open-sourcing XFS - to be announced at Linux Expo.

XFS has some nice features such as journalling, dynamically managed inodes,
B-tree directories, and real-time features for multimedia streams (looks like
this last one will not be in the open-sourced code).
But how about performance ? Does anybody have comparisons of various
filesystems in terms of performance ?

Stefan

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