From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 21 7: 6: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from opi.flirtbox.ch (unknown [62.48.0.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D40AE14C0C for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 07:06:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@pipeline.ch) Received: (qmail 4117 invoked from network); 21 May 1999 14:06:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) (195.134.128.41) by opi.flirtbox.ch with SMTP; 21 May 1999 14:06:02 -0000 Message-ID: <37456844.3EE57808@pipeline.ch> Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:05:56 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dom Mitchell Cc: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SGI, XFS and OSS? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dom Mitchell wrote: > > On 21 May 1999, Christian Weisgerber proclaimed: > > For those of us who don't use Irix systems, much less administrate any, > > could somebody sum up what's so remarkable about XFS? > > > > Jamie Bowden wrote: > > > > > XFS is -FAST- > > > > Anything else? > > Basically, it's a transactional logging filesystem (fast recovery, fast > metadata updates), like LFS was going to be. It also has Btree based > directories (as opposed to FFS's linear directories) which can make > things quicker. > > Many other filesystems also have these attributes. For example HPFS > (OS2) and NTFS (WinNT). However, XFS appears to be well done and > designed with Unix in mind. Have a look at http://www.sgi.com/products/remanufactured/challenge/ti_xfs.html and http://www.sgi.com/Technology/xfs-whitepaper.html -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message