SGI XFS 1.0 and Linux Failsafe plug-Ins available for LinuxMountain View 01 May 2001 SGI introduced a production release of XFS 1.0 for Linux, the high-end SGI journaled filesystem software, and code availability of Linux FailSafe clustering plug-ins. These products are for free.
XFS 1.0 for Linux, a journaled filesystem that improves performance and speeds
recovery in the event of a system failure, and the code for Linux FailSafe, a
commonly used clustering tool to run critical applications, is now available
for download on SGI's open source Web site. There is no cost for either item.
Linux FailSafe is a high-availability clustering tool that helps companies
maintain system uptime and ensure continual access to software and services,
while eliminating the risk of system failures on critical applications. Linux
FailSafe is architected to scale up to 16 nodes in a cluster with the cluster
members sharing storage, allowing multiple servers to assume control of data in
the event of a failure. Now with SGI's open sourced Linux FailSafe plug-ins,
NFS, Samba and Apache applications will be able to failover on system
failure and users will still have access to their data.
XFS, a high-performance filesystem, provides
reliability and rapid crash recovery without hampering performance. Existing filesystems entail
significant limitations in scalability and stability, whereas SGI XFS is the first journaled
filesystem that has over a six-year solid track record in production environments.
XFS 1.0 for Linux works with the Linux 2.4 kernel and offers unique advantages that other
filesystems do not, including:
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