XFS file system

[Steve Siegfried]

don fisher wrote:
> 
> I can determine that the XFS file system is supported. But it does not 
> appear to be mainstream (e.g. no mkfs.xfs etc). Abut two years ago it 
> was used for large (>4TB) and fast file systems.
> 
> What is the current status of XFS. Most all of the documentation I 
> have been able to locate date from the last century.
> 

mkfs.xfs and fsck.xfs are both in the xfsprogs RPM.

If you go to Google and enter "XFS", the very first page you'll be
shown is http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/, the project's open source
home page for Linux.