RSSSGI Gives Linux XFS
By Justin Jenkins | Published May 2, 2001, 2:10 PM
Once again, SGI has stepped in to give Linux something to brag about. The OS now has a port of the robust XFS services, a journaling filesystem that provides rapid recovery from system crashes and the ability to support extremely large disk farms. XFS is the default filesystem for all SGI customers running its IRIX OS, and has been in production since 1994. XFS 1.0 is the first journaled filesystem for Linux available with a proven track record and strengthens this fledgling OS’s robustness as a whole. XFS 1.0 is licensed under GPL.
Along with XFS, SGI has also released Linux FailSafe. Linux FailSafe plug-ins provide a robust clustering environment with resilience from any single point of failure. Utilizing these plug-ins, system administrators can give NFS, Samba and Apache applications the ability to re-integrate with another system if a failure occurs, allowing users to sustain access to their data.
I am looking forward to a comparison between the different file systems! I have tried ReiserFS but foung it not stable enough. After pulling the plug a few times it corrupted. I know it is not the way to test... ;-)
IBM is porting the AIX file system as well. AIX has a great LVM. Does anybody know if XFS comes with something similar? I still do miss a couple of tools for ReiserFS. Hope they are working on it. That would make me test it again... ;-)
A fail safe FS will make Linux a strong contender in the big iron world... For the desktop market other features obviously are more important.
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|It's about time that Linux has something other than that half-assed of a file system ext2.
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|Um, there have been other FSes developed for Linux. Most notably, Reiserfs.
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|But with all the "crashless" Linux boxes, how useful is it? ;-)
Actually sounds like a good bit of software- useful for linux "newbies" like me, that can't figure things out when they mess up!
James
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|Actually, that's not what it's for at all. You stupid, stupid idiot.
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|Wow, Linux has almost caught up to BeOS, if only it would install on my computer...
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|Im sorry buddy, but how can you even compare BeOS to Linux? It's like comparing MS Word to NotePad. If you can't get Linux to work, that's your problem. Consider Linux-Mandrake, its very easy to use and has a great installer!
The Mostarac
http://winbeta.cjb.net
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|Gee, I would have thought "You poor, deluded fool" would have gone over LOTS better....LOL!!
You and your witty posting! You crack me up!
James
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|Hehe.. yeah my job is to get on people's nerves and see how much they can take. You obviously passed. Congrats, jerk. ;)
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|Don't you mean NotePad to MS Word?
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|What is it with linux users and attitude? ohh wait! I know its cos most of them are over-hormonal 13 year old kids!
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|Ah. I think I know you- First name Stu, last name Pididiot....(freely adapted from Bart Simpson).
Doing that kind of thing, ya mean? I understand. Everybody needs a hobby! LOL!!
James
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|i like how people are comparing UNIX-es based on MS products...shows u what the standard is....
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|Comparing Linux to BeOS is like comparing Hotrod to a van. Sure I can carry a lot more things in it, but it's slow as hell and twice as ugly.
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