SGI To Debut InfiniteStorage

Submitted by Greg Afinogenov 2003-09-10 SGI and IRIX 6 Comments

This press release announces SGI’s coming debuts at the IBC in Amsterdam. These include several new workstations and InfiniteStorage, which seems to be a new fileystem for transparently sharing media files across operating systems (Linux, IRIX, Windows NT, OSX).

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6 Comments

2003-09-10 4:22 am

Anonymous
CXFS has been around for more than three years now.So it is not all that new. Support for linux and AIX is the new part.
2003-09-10 5:09 am

Anonymous
as long as the filesystem is ported to the OS…

are the sources open to this one ? a link to them would fit the news I think.
2003-09-10 1:15 pm

Anonymous
And Windows XP, it just wasn’t listed in the press release…
2003-09-10 1:18 pm

Anonymous
CXFS is not open source and yes it is ported to these

operating systems.

More info about CXFS is at:

http://www.sgi.com/products/storage/tech/file_systems.html
2003-09-10 5:41 pm

Anonymous
64-bit scalability that supports file sizes up to 9 million terabytes, filesystems to 18 million terabytes
2003-09-10 7:28 pm

Anonymous
How about *BSD support?