Re: SGI's XFS DONATED AS OPEN SOURCE!!!!!!!!!

Jim Mostek (mostek@sgi.com)
Thu, 27 May 1999 12:35:24 -0500 (CDT)

>
>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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