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XFS Talks, Papers, Articles, ...
The XFS team has been working on a training course aimed at developers,
support staff and experienced users, that explores the internals and
ondisk format of XFS.
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XFS Overview and Internals
[Index]
Barry Naujok has documented most of the XFS ondisk format, including
examples on how to traverse the structure and diagnose ondisk problems:
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XFS Filesystem Structure
[pdf]
At the Ottawa Linux Symposium (July 2006), Dave Chinner presented a paper
on filesystem scalability in Linux 2.6 kernels:
In July 2006, SGI storage marketing updated the XFS datasheet:
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Open Source XFS for Linux [pdf]
At UKUUG 2003, Christoph Hellwig presented a talk on XFS:
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XFS for Linux (July 2003) [pdf] [html]
Originally published in Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2002 Usenix Annual Technical Conference:
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Filesystem Performance and Scalability in Linux 2.4.17 (June 2002)
[pdf]
At the Ottawa Linux Symposium, an updated presentation on porting XFS to
Linux was given:
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Porting XFS to Linux (July 2000) [html]
At the Atlanta Linux Showcase, SGI presented the following paper on the
port of XFS to Linux:
- Porting the SGI XFS File System to Linux (October 1999)
[ps]
[pdf]
At the 6th Linux Kongress & the Linux Storage Management Workshop (LSMW)
in Germany in September, 1999, SGI had a few presentations including the
following:
- SGI's port of XFS to Linux (September 1999)
[html]
- Overview of DMF (September 1999)
[html]
At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in August 1999, SGI published:
- An Open Source XFS data sheet (August 1999)
[pdf]
From the 1996 USENIX conference:
- An XFS white paper
[html]
Other historical articles, press-releases, etc:
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IBM's Advanced Filesystem Implementor's Guide has a chapter
Introducing XFS
[html]
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An editorial titled
Tired of fscking? Try a journaling filesystem!,
Freshmeat (February 2001)
[html]
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Who give a fsck about filesystems provides an overview of
the Linux 2.4 filesystems
[html]
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Journal File Systems in issue 55 of Linux Gazette
provides a comparison of journaled filesystems.
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The original XFS beta release announcement was published in
Linux Today (September 2000)
[html]
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XFS: It's worth the wait
was published on EarthWeb (July 2000)
[html]
- An IRIX-XFS data sheet (July 1999)
[pdf]
- The Getting Started with XFS book (1994)
[pdf]
- Original XFS design documents (1993)
[ps]
[pdf]
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