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I've been having some fun with a revived SGI Octane running IRIX and it occurred to me, quite out-of-the-blue, that XFS development essentially ceased before SSDs were ever even contemplated. For a few moments, I pondered the apparent profundity of this realisation, and then I moved on, cursing the lack of package management while trying to get something to work.

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I worked down the hall from the XFS team at SGI in 2005. Development had definitely not ceased, and their work did not seem heavily related to Octane systems. They were focused on XFS for Suse and RedHat Linux for enterprise and supercomputing.

ah, youre right up to a point. around 2014 there was a great flurry of work done, which meant its metadata speed improved >50x turning it from a great streaming file system, to a good all rounder.

Ah good to know; I had given up on XFS before then because the metadata speed made certain SVN operations painful

It was a bit before that, iirc. LWN article summarizing the changes at [1], which are mostly delaylog, if we are referring to the same thing. Was default-enabled in 2011 on Linux 3.3.

... I’ve happened to spend much of the last three weeks learning about XFS.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/476263/

Aha, good spot. My boss sent me the video of that presentation

pkgsrc is still setup to work on IRIX, although few have used it recently

IRIX, like all SRV4, has a perfectly adequate package manager.

In the SGI case it is called "inst"

Believe there was a "software manager" or some such.

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