Re: how to actually build SGI's xfs?

clubneon (clubneon@clubneon.com)
Sun, 6 Aug 2000 07:56:33 -0400 (EDT)


Does XFS support multiple machines mounting a single filesystem over
either fibrechannel loop or external SCSI RAID?

I know about GFS (Global File System), but it's 2.4 support seems to be a
little missing right now.

On 6 Aug 2000, Thomas Graichen wrote:

> Thomas Graichen <news-list.linux.kernel@innominate.de> wrote:
>
> > now some words about my impression of it so far: i is quite useable
>
> maybe some other things worth noting here would be:
>
> * xfs has working journaling on linux
> * xfs has a working repair_xfs (for hw failures etc.)
> * xfs will soon have working xfsdump/xfsrestore
> * xfs has a (i think) working fs debugger
> * xfs will be hopefully soon also working on non x86 platforms
>
> beside all of the other of its nice features (btrees etc.)
>
> t
>
> p.s.: btw. i'm in no way related to sgi :-)
>
>

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