File System Design part 1, XFS

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @05:23AM from the get-your-hack-on dept.

rchapman writes "Generally, file systems are not considered "sexy." When a young programmer wants to do something really cool, his or her first thought is generally not "Dude, two words... File System." However, I am what is politely termed "different." I find file systems very interesting and they have seldom been more so than they are right now. Hans Reiser is working on getting Reiser4 integrated into the Linux kernel, the BSD's are working on getting a journaled file system together, and Sun Microsystems just recently released a beta of ZFS into OpenSolaris. "

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File System Design part 1, XFS

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