Editing XFS (section)

=== First generation XFS ===
[[Silicon Graphics]] began development of XFS<ref>{{cite book
 |last1            = Smith
 |first1           = Roderick W.
 |title            = Linux Administrator Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to Linux Certification Skills
 |url              = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ll_ETPXJE5wC
 |series           = Street smarts series
 |publisher        = John Wiley & Sons
 |date = 2007
 |page             = 204
 |isbn             = 9780470116746
 |access-date      = 2016-03-21
 |quote            = Silicon Graphics (SGI) created its ''Extents File System (XFS)'' for its IRIX OS and [...] later donated the code to Linux.
 |archive-url      = https://web.archive.org/web/20160821163053/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ll_ETPXJE5wC
 |archive-date     = 2016-08-21
 |url-status       = live
}}</ref> ("X" was meant to be filled in later but never was) in 1993 for its [[UNIX System V]] based [[IRIX]] operating system. The file system was released under the [[GNU General Public License]] (GPL) in May 1999.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://slashdot.org/story/99/05/20/0243235/sgi-open-sourcing-xfs | title= SGI open-sourcing XFS | website= [[slashdot.org]] | date= 1999-05-19 | access-date= 2023-04-12 }}</ref>