History
According to the vendor, it was the first commercial journaling file system. That claim can be taken in two ways, i.e., the first implementation of a journaling file system in a commercial context, or the first file system available as an unbundled product.
Dan Koren is cited as one of the original developers of VxFS. He notes in a mailing list that they "finished release 1.0 one year or so later" after starting development of VxFS under a contract with AT&T Corporation in 1990. Other sources agree that the product was first released in 1991.
As the internet was not widely available in the early 1990s, getting a new file system deployed for Unix like operating systems was more difficult, so the one to two year delay in the release and commercialization of this file system was not unusual.
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