| To: | vincent@waw.com (Vincent Renardias) |
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| Subject: | Re: boot linux - wish |
| From: | Ralf Baechle <ralf@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de> |
| Date: | Sun, 17 Aug 1997 00:07:45 +0200 (MET DST) |
| Cc: | miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com |
| In-reply-to: | <Pine.LNX.3.95.970816224739.21289F-100000@odin.waw.com> from "Vincent Renardias" at Aug 16, 97 10:54:01 pm |
| Sender: | owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com |
> On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > > > > Is there ever ANY chance of seeing XFS in Linux? Or a flavor of a really > > > fast journaled file system? > > > > not right now. And getting an XFS clone to work on Linux is really > > not a trivial task. > > Are the XFS specs. available BTW? There is a whitepaper available on SGI's webserver. It however does not refer to the really interesting details. As far as the complexity of writing an XFS-like fs is concerned - SGI has invested a significant fraction of the R&D of XFS into the realtime stuff. So ignoring that part for the beginning makes the task of writing a XFS like filesystem much easier. Ralf |
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