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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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Why can't xfs_freeze find this directory when called with ec2-consistent-snapshot?

On my management server: /usr/bin/ec2-consistent-snapshot --freeze-filesystem /mnt/websites --description "FOO-DATA $(date)" vol-d84bhi64 --region eu-west-1 /mnt/websites: No such file or directory ec2-consistent-snapshot: ERROR: xfs_freeze -f…
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Appropriate Linux (ubuntu 10.04) FS type for rapid FS management many small files and directories

Possible Duplicate: Linux's best filesystem to work with 10000's of files without overloading the system I/O I have an 240gb image store of approximately 1.5 million entries. About half of these entries are image files (4 to 100kb) and the other…
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Adding XFS Volume Options in /etc/fstab

I need to add the inode64, and nobarrier options to /etc/fstab. Are they valid options to just add in under the fourth column? Looking at the fstab man page it points to the mount manpage for options, but this doesn't have either of them listed…
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Partition as XFS on RAID 5

I have configured a 14 TB as RAID 5. How can I make it to two XFS partitions? Details are as below: Disk......cciss/c0d1: 14002.5 GB, 14002557116416 bytes 255 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3351561 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 = 4177920…
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XFS drive unmounting on write

I have a database backup script which does a mysqldump and copies the dump to an external hard drive with an XFS partition on it. Unfortunately partway through the copy, the drive dismounts and the device changes from say /dev/sdc to /dev/sdd.…
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Mounting a partition from a raw DD image file of a physical disk

I have a DD image taken from the raw HDD image (/dev/sdb). This image file contains an XFS filesystem that I need to mount. It is much too large to restore to disks (2.6TB img file) so I would like to mount it using loopback. However, the partition…
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/dev/md device disappeared in Linux RAID1 array

I inherited a NAS server that is setup with 5 RAID1 soft arrays grouped together into a XFS volume group. Whoever built the 5th md device created it without a Linux Auto RAID partition (Looks like they did a mdadm --create using the raw disk (i.e.…
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Good filesystem for 20TB hardware-controlled RAID5 array?

What's the best file system for Ubuntu 10.10 assuming the average filesize is 8-30GB with no more than 1-2 users accessing the array at any given time?
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How to copy a large RAID1 XFS partition with over-allocated space

I have a NAS server with 12 1T drives in a RAID10 linux soft array. The main data area is a 5.4TB XFS partition. On that partition, I've been creating iSCSI disk images, taking advantage of XFS's ability to "thin provision" space. That means…
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How should I setup an Ubuntu server on EC2 (MySQL, code location, etc..)?

I've started to fiddle around EC2, and I can't seem to understand the "AWS way" of setting up a server. I'm using Ubuntu server 10.10 64 bit, from an official AMI by Canonical. There is an EBD drive connected to the server. I need a standard LAMP…
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How should I backup this large volume?

I have a 10TB XFS filesystem on a SLES 10.2 server. I am currently running rsync on it once per day, to sync it with a disk-based online backup on another server. The primary volume is quite busy as it is, and so rsync is only running at 2MB/sec…
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Update default XFS quotas to all existing users?

How can I update existing default user quotas on XFS if I already have a default value defined? For example: I have a home directory with existing user quota defined and now I've upgraded it with the following command: xfs_quota -x -c "limit…
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Postfix warning: not enough free space in mail queue

I have already checked the solutions at this post, but I can't find the reason. This is my situation: Running postfix inside a docker container (docker swarm). Docker container has no quota. /var/mail volume mounted from…
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How can I restore lost data after executing the xfs_repair command to forcibly clear log files to restore the file system?

I already know how to do xfs meta data backup. To repair the xfs file system, only the xfs_repair -L lv command is available. I will move the abnormal Inodes to the lost+found directory after I want to perform the repair. Would you like to ask if…
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Cwd of a process started from hard link path

I have an app which is starting by path which contains a folder which is hard link. If I look for process current working directory it is same as source of a hard link. The main problem is that app has relative path for writing logs and etc. So logs…
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