Zusammenfassung
XFS is an advanced journalled filesystem, originally developed for SGI's IRIX operating system. In 1995 SGI decided to port XFS to Linux and release it under the GNU Public License (GPL).
This paper will explain unique and interesting features of XFS, describe differences in the implementations for IRIX and Linux and give a brief history of the XFS development process. It is targeted at developers and experience system administrators, basic knowledge of UNIX filesystem concepts is required.
ﾜber den Autor
Christoph Hellwig has been working with Linux since about 1995, dealing with kernel-related issues much of the time. He has been invloved in many Open Source projects, ranging from small fixes to major contributions. He is in the top-ten list of commits to both the Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5 tree according to the Bitkeeper statistics (which he hasn't faked himself but still should be taken with care).
After a number of smaller network administration and programming contracts he worked for Caldera's German development subsidiary on various kernel and userlevel aspects of the OpenLinux distribution. Last year he joined the fileystem and storage group at SGI and is focussing on XFS for Linux now.
