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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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After xfs repair, only files from root user are accessible

After a power failure during server installation of CentOS, the external storage system that contains user data could not be mounted due to failed superblocks. I performed an xfs_repair on the system, which worked fine, but only the directories…
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cant turn on mysqld. I moved mysql to an XFS directory and pointed it there

hey guys hopefully someone has the answers for this but these are my errors ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) and in my /etc/log/mysqld.log 150403 0:30:26 [Note]…
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What linux filesystems does Oracle 10g support?

I am wondering if there is a supported (or recommended) list of filesystems that Oracle 10g supports. Specifically I wish to know if storing Oracle data on an XFS partition is a bad idea. I ask because some people say it's slow at deleting, and…
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Is is possible to live sync two network drives?

I have one NAS in India (active) and while other in US(passive). I want to sync the US NAS with that of India in real time (with permissible latency) I tried using RAID1 for this purpose, but I don't know how to use RAID on two network drives. Is it…
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Shrinking or removing home partition in CentOS 7 installation

I made the mistake of creating a home partition that fills up all my disk space, and it's formatted in XFS, which to my knowledge isn't shrinkable. Since I have no use for the home partition anyway (I'm always root), can I just lvremove…
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slow disk writes between host and guest

I've got a ubuntu (server kernel) on a amd x4, 4gb ram, 2x seagate sata 1 tb disks for testing virtual machines and the write performance is very slow. The two disks are in a software raid1 array, one small boot ext3 partition, 10gb system partition…
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Correct procedure for mounting xfs filesystem to use quotas

I am using a Hetzner box on which I have configured my partitions to use LVM, and have set /home as a xfs filesystem. I use Webmin to administer the box which is running Debian 7.6, and have the following problem when trying to use quotas on there…
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Possible to put larger disks in LSI arrays?

I have a couple of these LSI arrays LSI Model: 0834 LSI Class: 3600 LSI Name: LSI Engenio LSI product name: 1932 LSI Product codename: Mary Jane Enclosure name: Shea (DM1300) End of Life: 31-Dec-2010 which was bought with 2TB disks. My plan is to…
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Which network file systems can deal with huge amount of subdirectories?

I need a network file system that can be accessed from multiple machines as the same time and that it will still be able to keep like 100.000 subdirectories of a single directory. In case someone is wondering why having these requirements: the…
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remount / move root folder to another partition on centos

We have an EC2/CentOS6 instance with "/" mounted to an EXT4 partition, and now another bigger sized hard disk formatted in XFS attached to the system. Since the former partition for "/" is insufficient in space and no LVM setup, what's the steps…
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1. XFS: how to find path / directory of inodes 2. XFS in a file -o loop and ddrescue?

how to find the full original file/directory path of some damaged XFS inodes? and how to list the last modified few 10000 inodes (=edited or moved files/directories) rapidly among millions of total files? is it better to ddrescue only the…
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Storing many small files with xattr in XFS and ext4

I have many small files (20 millions) with xattr on XFS drives. The average size of files is around 20KB and the average size of xattr is about 512 bytes. Because I would like to move them to ext4, I tested to copy a part of these files into ext4…
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mkfs.xfs: libxfs_device_zero write failed: Input/output error

I can't find a way to create a filesystem on one of my disks. first i'm geting the following output: [root@~]# mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb1 mkfs.xfs: /dev/sdb1 appears to contain a partition table (dos). mkfs.xfs: Use the -f option to force overwrite. after…
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XFS Trial barrier write failure message in dmesg

I'm noticing the following lines in dmesg when an XFS volume is being mounted dm-1: Disabling barriers, trial barrier write failed Anyone know what this means?
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Modifying NFS (XFS) File Attributes from within Windows

Scenario: I'm on Server 2008 R2 and I've mapped a network drive using Services for Network File System (NFS). I've mounted the drive to "N:" (for NFS or NAS) using the mount command line utility (source), specifying the "-o fileaccess=7" option,…
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