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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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Accessing file on XFS partition over NFS locks up application

After upgrading the local file server to Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS, I can no longer run mutt or svn. The lock up happens when the apps attempt to access the NFS mounted drives. I did an ltrace and found that mutt enters the D state when calling the…
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What XFS configuration should I use for EC2 disks (mysql db-server)

To be able to use ec2-consistent-snapshot on my EC2 servers I have decided to make my partition for my database data XFS What are the best XFS configuration options I can use for these disk? The disk will be around 5-10 Gb big, containing 1 Gb of…
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How to "align" a Linux file system with a SSD?

I'm interested in getting a dedicated server with a SSD, probably Corsair Force series CSSD-F120GB2-BRKT. It'll be an Linux server, most likely running XFS (but I'm open to other alternatives). Many articles (as well as the Corsair website) all…
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Very Slow Sequential Reads over NFS from an XFS disk in Amazon EC2

I am using tiobench to test performance of an NFS mounted volume, and notice that Sequential Reads are much slower than Random Reads. This isn't the behavior when I run the same test on the disk mounted locally. Here is a little graph, with NFS in…
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how to delete a xfs file system from logical volume (lvm2), to achieve the goal being this logical volume without any file system?

I have LVM RedHat 8 intall and there's one Volume Group there. Fri May 19 [michal@Ora2 ~]$ sudo vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name ol System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 3 Metadata Sequence No 7 …
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Expanding XFS file system from another device?

I have two virtual devices on a fedora system. Both are in a raid 5 configuration. No LVM is in place. The system it’s self is installed on one of the devices. That same device is also the one with some un-allocated extra space. Id like the use the…
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xfs_repair -L sent all data to lost+found directory with code names

After a RAID recovery, my xfs partition of 20 TB did not mount and I tried to repair it with xfs_repair and subsequently xfs_repair -L option. Now the partition could be mounted and all the folders are there but no data is available inside those…
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How do you Defrag an XFS file system

My old workstation, has /var /usr and /home mounted on an xfs file system, and it seems to spend most of its time grinding away, and getting slower and slower, much like windows used to 20 years ago, when it was heavily fragmented. So how do I check…
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Running xfs_repair on hardware raid while still rebuilding?

Should I allow a hardware raid5 array rebuild to complete after swapping out a drive PRIOR to running an xfs_repair on the volume? Currently xfs_repair keeps failing in Phase 7 at the same spot: Phase 7 - verify and correct link counts... Metadata…
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Is possible to change metadata of XFS system to another disk (such SSD)

I've a system in VPS with a big XFS. Now I have the possibility to add an SSD device to that VPS. Is it possible to change the meta-data destination from partition formatted as SSD to SSD partition to improve logging? All the information I see is to…
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NFS mounted XFS file systems not visible using xfs_quota

With CentOS7, I made the leap to XFS (from ext4) and since then I have been unable to query quotas on NFS Clients via the quota or xfs_quota commands. The xfs_quota command also does not report any information relating to the NFS mounted XFS file…
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High avgqu-sz & utilisation on madadm RAID 0 in AWS EC2 I3.8x large instance

I have an AWS EC2 i3.8xlarge with 4x1.9TB ephemeral storage volumes tied in mdadm RAID-0 (Yes, RAID 0) with XFS file system mounted using noatime and inode64 options. I am running an IO intensive application and the IO performance is poor. It was…
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Issue with removing LV disk space that was extended from another disk

I have a redhat server with two disks 100gb and 500gb. The 500GB disk was unused, however I then used it to extend the /var LV. The filesystem on all mountpoints are xfs and you actually can't reduce lv on a xfs filesystem. So what has been done to…
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`fio` does not timeout even specified?

# fio --name=random-write --directory=/mnt/test/ --ioengine=posixaio --rw=randwrite -bs=4k --numjobs=1 --size=4g -iodepth=1 -runtime=600 --time_based --end_fsync=1 random-write: (g=0): rw=randwrite, bs=(R) 4096B-4096B, (W) 4096B-4096B, (T)…
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Convert ext4/xfs file system to btrfs with minimal application impact

I'm trying to find a way to convert the file system of app servers (some of which run ext4 and some xfs) to btrfs. Preferably, I'd like to do this without needing to turn off the services. So far I've looked into btrs-convert but this requires the…
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