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The XFS documentation started by SGI has been converted to docbook/[https://fedorahosted.org/publican/ Publican] format. The material is suitable for experienced users as well as developers and support staff. The XML source is available in a [http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/xfs/xfsdocs-dev.git;a=summary git repository] and builds of the documentation are available here: | |||
* | * [http://xfs.org/docs/xfsdocs-xml-dev/XFS_User_Guide//tmp/en-US/html/index.html XFS User Guide] | ||
* | * [http://xfs.org/docs/xfsdocs-xml-dev/XFS_Filesystem_Structure//tmp/en-US/html/index.html XFS File System Structure] | ||
* | * [http://xfs.org/docs/xfsdocs-xml-dev/XFS_Labs/tmp/en-US/html/index.html XFS Training Labs] | ||
* (Original versions of this material are still available at [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/training/index.html XFS Overview and Internals (html)] and [http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/papers/xfs_filesystem_structure.pdf XFS Filesystem Structure (pdf)] | |||
The format of <tt>/proc/fs/xfs/stat</tt> also has been documented: | |||
* [[Runtime_Stats|Runtime_Stats]] | |||
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The October 2009 issue of the USENIX ;login: magazine published an article about XFS targeted at system administrators: | The October 2009 issue of the USENIX ;login: magazine published an article about XFS targeted at system administrators: | ||
Revision as of 15:00, 23 August 2010
The XFS documentation started by SGI has been converted to docbook/Publican format. The material is suitable for experienced users as well as developers and support staff. The XML source is available in a git repository and builds of the documentation are available here:
- (Original versions of this material are still available at XFS Overview and Internals (html) and XFS Filesystem Structure (pdf)
The format of /proc/fs/xfs/stat also has been documented:
The October 2009 issue of the USENIX ;login: magazine published an article about XFS targeted at system administrators:
- XFS: The big storage file system for Linux [pdf]
At the Ottawa Linux Symposium (July 2006), Dave Chinner presented a paper on filesystem scalability in Linux 2.6 kernels:
- High Bandwidth Filesystems on Large Systems (July 2006) [paper] [presentation]
At linux.conf.au 2008 Dave Chinner gave a presentation about xfs_repair that he co-authored with Barry Naujok:
- Fixing XFS Filesystems Faster [[1]]
In July 2006, SGI storage marketing updated the XFS datasheet:
- Open Source XFS for Linux [pdf]
At UKUUG 2003, Christoph Hellwig presented a talk on XFS:
Originally published in Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2002 Usenix Annual Technical Conference:
- Filesystem Performance and Scalability in Linux 2.4.17 (June 2002) [pdf]
At the Ottawa Linux Symposium, an updated presentation on porting XFSÂ to Linux was given:
- Porting XFS to Linux (July 2000) [html]
At the Atlanta Linux Showcase, SGI presented the following paper on the port of XFS to Linux:
At the 6th Linux Kongress & the Linux Storage Management Workshop (LSMW) in Germany in September, 1999, SGI had a few presentations including the following:
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
- IBM's Advanced Filesystem Implementor's Guide has a chapter Introducing XFS [html]
- An editorial titled Tired of fscking? Try a journaling filesystem!, Freshmeat (February 2001) [html]
- Who give a fsck about filesystems provides an overview of the Linux 2.4 filesystems [html]
- Journal File Systems in issue 55 of Linux Gazette provides a comparison of journaled filesystems.
- The original XFS beta release announcement was published in Linux Today (September 2000) [html]
- 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]