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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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Can't mount XFS partition anymore

I have 9 partitions formatted as XFS on my server. When I try to mount one of them, it fails. The others mount fine. root@fileserver2 # mount | grep xfs | head -1 /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/hdd1 type xfs (rw,noatime) root@fileserver2 # mount -t xfs…
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The impact of a high directory-to-file ratio on XFS

We're building a product that is likely to generate very large XFS volumes, and I'm trying to discover the scaling bottlenecks we're likely to run into given the architecture. As we manipulate files they get placed into directories on the XFS…
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How to format XFS parition if the stability is the most important thing

We want to use XFS to format some partitions in a server. High performance is of course our goal, but we prefer to stability firstly. For example, we want to recover the FS quickly if power failure happens. It's not acceptable if the partition is…
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xfs: difference between block size and sector size

mkfs.xfs has two following options among others: -b block_size_options This option specifies the fundamental block size of the filesystem. The valid block_size_options are: log=value or size=value and only one can be…
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When to use xfs_copy, and when to use xfsdump

I'm about to copy data from one XFS file system to another (smaller) XFS file system. The file systems may be unmounted while copying. I don't want to have to worry about ACLs, SELinux contexts, etc, so I'm looking at xfs_copy and xfsdump. When…
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Corruption of in-memory data detected: where does the issue lie?

We are experiencing crashes on our SSD VPSes, all working on KVM: crashes occur for different reasons; in the hurry to restore the service my team uses to reload a previous snapshot of the machine and never saves the logs. Anyway, among all the…
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Acceptable I/O speeds for 6 x 250GB SSDs in RAID 10

I'm running CentOS 7 (XFS filesystem) on a dell server with a PERC H700 raid controller. Inside this server I have 6 x Samsung 850 Evo 250GB SSDs (yes they are consumer drives however, this is a home server. In any case, I performed a DD test and am…
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OpenSolaris ZFS barebones for NAS

I've been tasked to suggest a NAS replacement for our aging fileserver at work, its currently running Linux with XFS (using LVM). We're a very small company of 5 folks, so we're using commodity hardware (2GhzCore2, 8GbRAM and about 4TB worth of HDDs…
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7Zip extraction on linux is so slow

Extracting 7zip with many small files on linux xfs, extraction speed is so slow. My Test System Environment. System1 : 2vCore/4GB CentOS 6.5 64bit guest on XenServer. System2 : 2vCore/4GB Windows 2012 guest on XenServer. Large small files Creation…
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Effectively handling 2+ million files

I have a file based DB that has about 2M files stored in 3 levels of subdirectories. 2/2/6253 2/2/6252 ... File a vary from 30 bytes to 60 KB. Whole DB is Read Only. DB is about 125 Gigabytes big. Added: All files are compressed by zlib (python) I…
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Optimization XFS on Linux guest in Hyper-V (VHDX)

In our company we're using Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012) hypervisor and VM to organize our in-company services in our data-center. I am supposed to set up Ubuntu 12.04 LTS guest for our main database (Postgresql). My sysadmins gave me a SSH…
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Can XFS or GlusterFS replace my ZFS needs?

Right now I have a FreeBSD hosts with ZFS and NFSv4. It is replicated to another FreeBSD box for backup purposes. The ZFS features that are important to me are software RAID6 snapshots, or some other way of replication to another…
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xfs: find files on the first 1 TB

I have been hit by xfs' No space left on device. According to the FAQ: http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_Why_do_I_receive_No_space_left_on_device_after_xfs_growfs.3F The only way to fix this is to move data around to free up space below 1TB.…
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XFS: No space left on device

I am using XFS on small HDD (/dev/sdb1, less than 150G) and storing many small files (-32KB). df -h and -i show that it has available space. # df -hv Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 127G 19G 102G 16%…
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Fastest way to chown a whole device (xfs)

I need to chown 1.5 million files on a drive. I'm currently doing: sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /root-of-device but it takes an awfully long time to run. I was wondering if there was some sort of superfast low-level way to chown every file on…
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