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Date:      Thu, 20 May 1999 15:12:30 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SGI, XFS and OSS? 
Message-ID:  <199905202012.PAA34850@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>  of "Thu, 20 May 1999 09:13:26 -0300." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905200912350.446-100000@thelab.hub.org> 

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The Hermit Hacker writes:
> 
> Just in case nobody has yet seen this...?
> 
> http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,36807,00.html?st.ne.fd.tohhed.ni

This is great news. My slowest SGI systems have faster metadata updates
than my fastest FreeBSD systems, same disk hardware.

No details yet as to the license terms. Hope they are open enough for it
to have a chance at becoming FreeBSD's default fs. Wouldn't it be a 
hoot if Sun adopted SGI's XFS filesystem too? More details at:

http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/1999/may/xfs.html

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.




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