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The ext4 or fourth extended filesystem is a journaling file system for linux/*nix developed as the successor to ext3.

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Are ext4 RAID5 tuning options useful under LVM?

I'm setting up a system with a system with a mdadm RAID5 which is the sole PV for a VG which hosts 4 LVs. When I make the filesystem, would the mkfs.ext4 -E option be useful? Or is its effect not possible to know because of LVM shenanigans? -E…
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linux loopback remount-ro, ext4_da_writepages: jbd2_start: 8192 pages, ino 130135; err -30

I have a loopback device formatted with ext4 (^has_journal, disabled journalling). During shutdown, when I try to force remount as read-only, the loopback mounted filesystem. echo "u" > /proc/sysrq-trigger I see these ext4 errors after remount…
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How do you *tag* a partition as ext4?

I have an ext3 partition so when I do this: mount /dev/blah /mnt/blah it is mounted automatically as ext3. I can get it to mount as ext4 by running mount -t ext4 /dev/blah /mnt/blah and it works. I presume the partition is somehow tagged as being…
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If I upgrade an ext3 fs to ext4, will it automatically increase the maximum amount of directories per directory?

Due to an external unavoidable situation*, I need to have more than 32k directories in a directory (but as far as I can tell, less than 64k). I'm hitting the limit of ext3. I presume the original server was running ReiserFS. The backup is stored in…
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How can i fix it: EXT4-fs warning (device sda3): ext4_dx_add_entry: Directory index full

I have noticed that in dmesg and syslog i have something like that: EXT4-fs warning (device sda3): ext4_dx_add_entry: Directory index full! I have checked df -i too: Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda3 …
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SLES 11 recommended filesystem

We are upgrading some servers from SLES 10 to SLES 11 and I just saw that ext4 is not supported. Should I move to XFS or keep ext3? I will be moving the programs and databases to a new VM so reformatting is not a problem. We are currently using…
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Solaris support for ext4/ext3/btrfs

Does anyone know if Solaris 11 (Sparc version) supports mounting ext3/ext4 or even better Btrfs volumes ? Most of the topics I find on the web are quite outdated (2006/2007) and reference old versions of Solaris which were pretty unfriendly to Linux…
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How can I reduce inode utilization on an ext4 filesystem?

Summary of My Need We put a large amount of files on a filesystem for analysis at a later time. We can't control how many files we're going to have, and this one box needs access to all of them. Unchangeable Limitations I can't change the inode…
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Recommended filesystem for MySQL (xfs vs ext4)

Setting up a MySQL 5.5 server, and wondering what the recommended filesystem is? ext4 or xfs? Running InnoDB and 40% writes 60% reads. Thanks.
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Rebalance CentOS / RHEL Ext4 LVM assignment

Our corporate standard is CentOS (which seems to prefer LVM), and I come from primarily a non-LVM background, so I'm treading new ground with this issue. I inherited an older machine as a log-server and had to reinstall CentOS. Due to issues with…
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optimizing ext[234] for small file throughput

I have a system that has a high throughput of small files on disk, i.e. a huge number of small files are created, written and deleted within seconds. Are there any reasonable ext2/ext3/ext4 mount options to improve the performance? I guess,…
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RAID6 mdraid -> LVM -> EXT4 root with GRUB2?

2012-03-31 Debian Wheezy daily build in VirtualBox 4.1.2, 6 disk devices. My steps to reproduce so far: Setup one partition, using the entire disk, as a physical volume for RAID, per disk Setup a single RAID6 mdraid array out of all of those Use…
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Setting up quotas on 64-bit RHEL6 OS with ext4 filesystem

Setting up a new 64 bit RHEL 6 server with ext4 FS. Have only worked with ext3 and 32bit RHEL5 before. No matter what I try, I cannot get it to work. Current settings for mount (from "mount" command): /dev/sda7 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime) proc on…
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Filesystem for an external drive that'll only connect to Linux

I just bought a new 500GB external harddrive. Most of the time I only store operating system ISO's on those things and some movies. Large files anyway, well over 4GiB sometimes, so FAT is out of the question. So, I'm left wondering. My old external…
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Is it really necessary to call /bin/sync twice before an unmanaged power-off?

My company sells an "embedded device" which is implemented as a headless Linux box with ext4 on an internal SSD. Some of our users have a habit of doing a "save current settings" on this box, and then cutting power to the unit as soon as the unit…
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