XFS

About XFS

XFS is Silicon Graphics "Next Generation Journalled 64-Bit Filesystem With Guaranteed Rate I/O" designed for IRIX based systems. XFS uses the standard inodes, bitmaps and blocks, and is compatable with EFS and NFS filesystems.

According to the XFS white paper it has;

• Scalable features and performance from small to truly huge data (petabytes)
• Huge numbers of files (millions)
• Exceptional performance: 500+ MBytes/second
• Designed with log/database (journal) technology as a fundamental part not just an extension to an existing filesystem
• Mission-critical reliability