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| Developer(s) | Digital Equipment Corporation |
|---|---|
| Full name | Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System |
| Introduced | 1993 with OSF/1 |
| Structures | |
| Bad blocks | Table |
| Limits | |
| Max volume size | 16 TiB |
| Max file size | 16 TiB |
| Max filename length | 255 bytes |
| Other | |
| Supported operating systems | Tru64 UNIX |
AdvFS, also known as Tru64 UNIX Advanced File System, is a file system developed in the late 1980s to mid-1990s[1] by Digital Equipment Corporation for their OSF/1 version of the Unix operating system (later Digital UNIX/Tru64 UNIX).[2] In June 2008, it was released as free software under the GPL-2.0-only license.[3] AdvFS has been used in high-availability systems where fast recovery from downtime is essential.[4]: 428
- ^ "Revision history?". SourceForge.net. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
- ^ Steven M. Hancock (January 2001). Tru64 Unix File System Administration Handbook. Digital Press. p. 258. ISBN 978-1-55558-227-2.
- ^ Press release concerning the release of the AdvFS source code
- ^ Brady, Don. Designing GIS for high availability and high performance. High Performance Computing in the Asia-Pacific Region, 2000. Proceedings. The Fourth International Conference/Exhibition on. pp. 423–431. doi:10.1109/HPC.2000.846591.
AdvFS is a journaled, local file system that provides higher availability, and greater flexibility and recovery than traditional UNIX file systems. The recovery takes just a few seconds for AdvFS...