History
Silicon Graphics started developing XFS in 1993, with first deployment on IRIX 5.3 in 1994. The filesystem was released under the GNU General Public License in May 2000, and ported to Linux, with the first distribution support appearing in 2001. It later became available in almost all GNU/Linux distributions.
XFS was first merged into the mainline Linux kernel in version 2.4 (around 2002), making it almost universally available on Linux systems. Gentoo Linux was an early user by mid-2002. Installation programs for the Arch, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Kate OS, Mandriva, Slackware, Ubuntu, VectorLinux and Zenwalk Linux distributions all offer XFS as a choice of filesystem, but few of these let the user create XFS for the /boot filesystems due to deficiencies and unpredictable behavior in GRUB, often the default bootloader. FreeBSD gained read-only support for XFS in December 2005 and in June 2006 experimental write support was introduced; however this is supposed to be used only as an aid in migration from Linux, not to be used as a "main" filesystem. The 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 distribution in 2009 had all needed kernel support but did not include command-line tools for creating and using xfs filesystems. The tools from CentOS worked, or were provided to customers on request. The 2010 release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 included XFS.
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