XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system created by Silicon Graphics, Inc (SGI) in 1993. It was the default file system in SGI's IRIX operating...
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structure of a superblock varies between file systems, its role as the "header" of the file system remains consistent. In XFS, the superblock is located at a well-known...
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August 2022. "IBM's Journaled File System (JFS) for Linux". "Growing an XFS File System". "Shrinking Support - xfs.org". XFS Wiki. 2022-07-17. Archived from...
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Extent File System (EFS) is an older extent-based file system used in IRIX releases prior to version 5.3. It has been superseded by XFS. EFS support for...
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computing, file system fragmentation, sometimes called file system aging, is the tendency of a file system to lay out the contents of files non-continuously...
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IRIX (category UNIX System V)
the XFS file system and the industry-standard OpenGL graphics API. SGI originated the IRIX name in the 1988 release 3.0 of the operating system for the...
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will remain consistent but user files may be corrupted after a crash or power loss. JFS's journaling is similar to XFS in that it only journals parts of...
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Dan Koren (1999-06-01). "Re: XFS and journalling filesystems". LKML.org. Retrieved 2007-11-21. "Next-Gen File Systems — File under 'futuristic': An overview...
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associated on file systems, such as NTFS, XFS, ext2, ext3, some versions of UFS, and HFS+, using extended file attributes. Some file systems provide for...
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systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file....
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Allocation group (redirect from AG (file systems))
groups may grant additional file system throughput. Allocation groups are used by these file systems: XFS from SGI, an XFS AG can have a max size of 1TiB...
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A clustered file system (CFS) is a file system which is shared by being simultaneously mounted on multiple servers. There are several approaches to clustering...
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Steganographic file systems are a kind of file system first proposed by Ross Anderson, Roger Needham, and Adi Shamir. Their paper proposed two main methods...
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Year 2038 problem (category Operating system technology)
Retrieved 13 September 2022. Michael Larabel (15 October 2020). "XFS File-System With Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem To The Year 2486". Phoronix...
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Fsck (redirect from File system consistency check)
Some modern file systems do not require fsck to be at boot after an unclean shutdown. Some examples are: XFS, a journaling file system. It has a dummy...
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of an existing journaling file system such as ext3, JFS, ReiserFS or XFS. It was developed around 1999. An InterMezzo system consists of a server, which...
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VERITAS File System – enabled via the pre-allocation API and CLI XFS – SGI's second-generation file system for IRIX and Linux Adoption outside of file systems...
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XFS is a computer file system created by Silicon Graphics. XFS may also refer to: X Font Server, a standard mechanism for an X server to communicate with...
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The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for sharing data using a distributed hash table...
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Ceph (software) (redirect from Ceph File System)
Filestore back end will be deprecated as of the Reef release in mid 2023. XFS was the recommended underlying filesystem for Filestore OSDs, and Btrfs could...
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The Amiga Fast File System (abbreviated AFFS, or more commonly historically as FFS) is a file system used on the Amiga personal computer from the computer-manufacturer...
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on the DASD volume. XFS – Used on SGI IRIX and Linux systems zFS – z/OS File System; not to be confused with other file systems named zFS or ZFS. zFS...
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HAMMER is a high-availability 64-bit file system developed by Matthew Dillon for DragonFly BSD using B+ trees. Its major features include infinite NFS-exportable...
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Stratis (configuration daemon) (redirect from Stratis (OS File System))
of kernel level development of file systems ZFS and Btrfs. It is built upon enterprise-tested components LVM and XFS with over a decade of enterprise...
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Btrfs (redirect from Btfrs file system)
2019. RHEL moved from ext4 in RHEL 6 to XFS in RHEL 7. In 2020, Btrfs was selected as the default file system for Fedora 33 for desktop variants. As of...
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limit of that file system format is at 8 or 16 terabyte. Handling larger disk partitions requires the usage of a different file system like XFS which was...
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file system is a file system designed for storing files on flash memory–based storage devices. While flash file systems are closely related to file systems...
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Red Hat Gluster Storage (category Distributed file systems)
also RHEL 7) with the latest GlusterFS community release, oVirt, and XFS File System. In April 2014, Red Hat re-branded GlusterFS-based Red Hat Storage...
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include ext4, XFS and btrfs. Support for "system attributes" (in which the operating system defines the meaning, unlike general extended file attributes)...
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Soft updates (category Unix file system technology)
Soft updates is an approach to maintaining file system metadata integrity in the event of a crash or power outage. Soft updates work by tracking and enforcing...
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