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Is XFS a distributed file system or a journaling file system?

In Wikipedia it says that XFS is a journaling file system.But in the Berkeley website they mentioned that it is a serverless file system/Distributed file system.

Which one is true?

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XFS is the filesystem that originated from SGI and was ported to Linux, it is a journaling filesystem.

xFS looks to be a filesystem under development at Berkeley, as such you will not find it in a production operating system, at least not for a while.

The name collision is an unfortunate source of confusion.

Edit: Removed reference to Berkeley making an unfortunate choice since their project existed first.

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    The people at Berkeley cannot be blamed for that name given the fact they first published a white paper about xFS one year before XFS was first released by Silicon Graphics.
    – jlliagre
    Nov 29, 2014 at 12:54

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