[H-GEN] Idea for journalling filesystems

[Paul Gearon]

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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Ewan Edwards wrote:

> I have never had anything to do with SCO, but I have
> had something to do with SGI systems.  From that experience, I was under the
> (maybe mistaken?) impression that XFS filesystem technology came from SGI.
>
> Can anyone correct or confirm this for me please?

Yes, SGI wrote XFS.  To the best of my knowledge SCO neither invented the
concept, nor did SGI use or have access to SCO's Unix when they wrote it.


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Paul Gearon

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