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XFS is a file system originally for SGI's IRIX OS, but is now available for Linux. It is known for handling large files and large file systems well, one of the few Linux file systems that can handle partitions over 16.8TB.

XFS is a file system originally for SGI's IRIX OS, but is now available for Linux. It is known for handling large files and large file systems well, one of the few Linux file systems that can handle partitions over 16.8TB.

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Upgrading 32-bit XFS filesystem to 64-bit

What would be the procedure for upgrading XFS filesystems from 32-bit to 64-bit? What damage or issues would arise from accessing XFS fs that was formatted on a 32-bit OS with a 64-bit OS? To recap, I had some issues with NFS to a fileserver that…
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Should use EXT4 or XFS to be able to 'sync'/backup to S3?

It's my first message here, so bear with me... (I have already checked quite a few of the "Related Questions" suggested by the editor) Here's the setup, a brand new dedicated server (8GB RAM, some 140+ GB disk, Raid 1 via HW controller, 15000…
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Weird used/free space view of network drives with Samba and XFS

I'm using XFS project quotas to offer some private and limited disk space to my users, running Windows. It works pretty well, as the users can't exceed the quota like expected. However, the Samba's reported free/used disk space is a bit crazy. In…
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Questions for Ext3/4 Features ( dir_index,filetype) and XFS File system Performance

I am developing an applications which reads huge list of directories and check file types using file command and using ext4 file system. When i look into Ext4 , i see it have two interesting features dir_index filetype i just enabled both…
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Linux filesystem suggestion for MySQL with a 100% SELECT workload

I have a MySQL database that contains millions of rows per table and there are 9 tables in total. The database is fully populated, and all I am doing is reads i.e., there are no INSERTs or UPDATEs. Data is stored in MyISAM tables. Given this…
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Ubuntu 9.10 cron script 'ec2-consistent-snapshot' unable to execute and access files

I have a Ubuntu 9.10 image running on Amazon EC2 and I've setup a backup script ec2-consisten-snapshot. I'm able to run the script from SSH, and everything works peachy. sudo ec2-consistent-snapshot --mysql --xfs-filesystem /vol vol-xxxxxxx…
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Failed to Partition a 10TB HD?

Before I tried to partition a 10TB HDD again, parted saw it: # parted /dev/sdb (parted) print list Model: ATA ST10000NM0016-1T (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 10.0TB Sector size (logical/physical):…
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How to force re-read XFS file system contents

In our computing cluster we have set up a simple but quite effective way of serving data to computing nodes. The storage system provides to luns that are merged with LVS and on top of that we build a big (80 TiB) XFS partition. All nodes are…
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df differs from du a lot, nfsd service seems matter

I know there have been a lot of discussion on the df/du discrepancy topic. But here I’d post a special issue and ask for some hints. here is the detail( with a hardware raid5 with 6 sas disks) system info of nfs server/client: [root@ndio06 ~]# cat…
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AWS XFS performance issues. Stripped setup vs single disk setup

I wanted to share an issue (I guess I may be misunderstanding some concepts) that I'm facing with some benchmarks I'm doing to XFS setups, as we are going to recently migrate a service to a new instance and we would like to have the max. amount of…
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Check XFS project quota on NFS client

I am implementing project quotas on a file server (Centos 7.8.2003) that has data volumne formatted using XFS. File access to this server will occur using NFS. I know how to check user quotas on the NFS client using the quota command (see Access xfs…
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Why does active-active configuration degrade performance compared to failover?

We are setting up the new storage for an HPC compute cluster that we are managing for applied statistics, bioinformatics, and genomics. Configuration We have the main enclosure with a Dell EMC ME4084 (84x12TB 7200rpm) and an additional enclosure…
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Pod stuck on ContainerCreating due to FailedMount

I have a sporadic issue specifically with big volumes (~2TB) where the pod in my Kubernetes cluster is stuck on "ContainerCreating" with the reason : failed to mount the volume as "xfs", it already contains unknown data, probably partitions. Mount…
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shrink LVM (not XFS) to use for guest nodes (KVM)

I have /homemountpoint (Type=LVM). how can I reduce/home` from 418G to 200G and use remaining disk space for guest(KVM) Node? because XFS can not be shrunk (). localhost home]$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT nvme0n1 …
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Can't grow XFS file system on Amazon EC2

I added some space to an EBS volume on an Amazon EC2 but tried growing the partition before it had finished optimizing the disk and making all the space available. Now I can see the correct drive size but I'm missing about 1TB of space in the…
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