Editing Veritas File System (section)

==History==
According to the vendor, it was the first commercial [[journaling file system]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/FileSystem_UNIX/253148.pdf |title=VERITAS Foundation Suite and Foundation Suite HA 3.5 |publisher=VERITAS |access-date=2007-11-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031025011156/http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/FileSystem_UNIX/253148.pdf |archive-date=2003-10-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
That claim can be taken in two ways, i.e., the first implementation of a journaling file system in a commercial context, or the first file system available as an unbundled product.

[[Dan Koren]] is cited as one of the original developers of VxFS.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.linux-kongress.org/1999/abstracts.html |title=6th International Linux Kongress |date=1999-09-09 |access-date=2007-11-21}}</ref>
He notes in a mailing list that they "finished release 1.0 one year or so later" after starting development of VxFS under a contract with [[AT&T Corporation]] in 1990.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lkml.org/lkml/1999/6/1/31 |title=Re: XFS and journalling filesystems |author=Dan Koren |date=1999-06-01 |publisher=LKML.org |access-date=2007-11-21}}</ref>  Other sources agree that the product was first released in 1991.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=24108&page_number=3 |title=Next-Gen File Systems &mdash; File under 'futuristic': An overview of the technologies and players &mdash; The Heavy Hitters: Veritas |publisher=Byte and Switch |date=2002-11-14 |access-date=2007-11-21 |archive-date=2008-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309233339/http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=24108&page_number=3 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://issj.sys-con.com/read/46369.htm |title=VERITAS Celebrates 15 Years - Next Big Focus: Grid Computing |publisher=SYS-CON |date=2004-09-14 |access-date=2007-11-21 |archive-date=2008-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080311020055/http://issj.sys-con.com/read/46369.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

As the internet was not widely available in the early 1990s, getting a new file system deployed for Unix-like operating systems was more difficult, so the one- to two-year delay in the release and commercialization of this file system was not unusual.{{fact|date=April 2017}}