Re: XFS and journalling filesystems

Simon Patience (sp@albion.engr.sgi.com)
Thu, 27 May 1999 08:27:53 -0700 (PDT)


David Luyer wrote:
|> It is b-tree based - a robust b-tree based read-write filesystem with
|> true Unix semantics is something which Linux could really use. Even if
|> just for putting on read-only disks :-) It is a 64-bit filesystem, and
|> they even state that its release is hoped to encourage the use of their
|> hardware - I don't think they're aiming for it to be usable on 32-bit
|> systems here.

The flaw in this logic is that SGI has 32 bit systems. :-) So XFS is
indeed expected to work on them.

Simon.

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