---schnipp-- Tomorrow at Linux Expo in North Carolina, SGI will announce that it will freely license its XFS "journaling" file system technology, a core component of its Irix operating system, as open source software. Effectively, this means developers will be able to incorporate XFS into their own variants of Linux. ---schnapp-- ---schnipp-- With the 64-bit file system in XFS, computers can manage files as large as 9 million terabytes and file systems of 18 million terabytes, McAllister said. Linux can't currently deal with files that large, he said. "We expect the technology is a little in front of the demand," he said, but already there are scientific users who nave data sets that large ---schnapp-- http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,36807,00.html?st.ne.fd.tohhed.ni Frank Matthieß decor metall GmbH & Co KG +49/0 52 22 - 286 - 315