From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n7AMtqCL087595 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:56:02 -0500 Received: from mail.sandeen.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 8004B146DA86 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id IEfaYDX0Ky9WtEUL for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:56:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A80A597.6050806@sandeen.net> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:56:23 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Best design docs for XFS References: <4A808FC7.2020800@jquigley.com> In-Reply-To: <4A808FC7.2020800@jquigley.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: John Quigley Cc: XFS Development John Quigley wrote: > Hey Folks: > > What are the best and most current technical design documents > pertaining to (Linux port of) XFS, as a companion to reading the > actual code? Based upon what I've read on the community site: > > http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_Papers_and_Documentation > > the most thorough technical documentation of the system lives at: > > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/design_docs/xfsdocs93_pdf/ > > My only concern with the above is the age - are these sufficiently > up-to-date from an architecture perspective? Thanks very much. It's pretty good still, the fundamental design is not substantially changed; you're more likely to find missing bits than "wrong" bits I think. http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/training/index.html has more info as well. -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs