Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Jun 1999 01:45:16 -0700 | From | Dan Koren <> | Subject | Re: SGI's XFS DONATED AS OPEN SOURCE!!!!!!!!! |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > > 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.
File system companies like Transarc or Veritas could not exist if such were the case. File systems can be ported between different OS's, even though this isn't trivial. Developing a transactional file system from scratch is still a lot more work than porting an existing one.
> (Or maybe SGI is going to do work for us?)
SGI is porting XFS to Linux.
> There are some non-trivial issues buffer cache.
Indeed :)
Dan Koren Dan.Koren@sgi.com Engineering Manager, File Systems phone: (USA) 650-933-3678 Silicon Graphics, Inc. pager: (USA) 888-769-0874 1600 Amphiteatre Pkwy. M/S 08U-500 or dkoren_p@pager.sgi.com Mountain View, CA 94043-1351 fax: (USA) 650-933-3542
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