XFS Papers and Documentation
Primary XFS Documentation
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:
- XFS File System Structure
- Japanese translation is also available.
- (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:
Papers, Presentations, Etc
At the linux.conf.au 2012 event, Dave Chinner presented a talk on filesystem metadata scalability:
- XFS - Recent and Future Adventures in Filesystem Scalability [Video] [Presentation Slides]
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 [pdf]
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 XFS 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]