Linux FS von SGI

[Frank Matthieß]

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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. 

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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

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