[weblacky]

To answer the xfs Linux question, not anymore!!!

Looked into this last year, xfs has gone through several revisions (I think 4-5). Irix support is only revisions 1-2. Irix 6.5.5+ introduced xfs v2.

All that support was removed from xfs-prog tools in modern Linux some time ago (I tried newer parted magic distributions, same problem, driver knew it was xfs but complained it didn’t understand it and required v3 or higher).

I assume because modern XFS was used in clustering file systems during SGI’s Linux fad. So they probably felt that people would only use it for those functions and removed early support that had been there.

You could try to find a 10+ year old Linux distribution that still has support.

But right now, NO XFS version used in Irix is understood by anybody but Irix right now. I was shocked!

Irix still supports fat16 and later ones used udf 1.2 or 1.5 (don’t know which) on DVD-RAM disks. Those will still work.

But do like everyone is saying, load IIS ftp server in windows (built-in and free) and ftp content out of the Indy. Nearly everything else has been blocked. But you can still share a small sized SCSI disks using fat16, that’s it now. Sad that Linux removed early xfs support, I found no reason given why this was done.


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