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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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Modify XFS filesystem creation parameters during kickstart installation

I'm streamlining the kickstart process for a series of EL6.2 (RHEL, CentOS, SL, etc.) systems. I'd prefer to use XFS over ext4 for the growth/data partition. However, I'd like some control over the options passed to mkfs.xfs for the creation of the…
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Where is my space on /var being used?

I'm a novice linux admin and now responsible for the OS of a 3 node Tomcat cluster. (Tomcat is handled by the DEVs luckily.) I got alarmed by our monitoring solution that /var on server01 has only 172MB left of free space. Most likely because…
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upgrading ext3 fs on ubuntu 8.04

so we are stuck with this closed source system that keeps on adding folders to one directory, and it's going to hit the 32k limit soon because it's ext3. and that folder is expected to have +100k folders very soon too. it's 2.6.24-27-xen x86_64…
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LVM vs RAID0 vs RAID "linear" - Combine 2 disks as one, data recovery?

given two 2TB USB external disks that have to be combined to one 4TB volume and formatted with one big Filesystem (XFS), I have a small question to ask. Does LVM provide better Data recovery, should one disk be unplugged/damaged by being able to…
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Why won't xfs_check run?

I'm running a fully updated Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty" i686 server. I have an single XFS volume in an LVM group called /dev/mapper/vg0-bigthree. If I boot to single user mode and ensure that the volume is unmounted, I still get the following every time I…
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RAID Read/Write Speed Gradually Slows

This is actually a server at home, but I felt it was sufficiently complicated as to not have it on SuperUser and could easily apply to a professional situation. I have a file server running Debian (Lenny 5.0.4), and it has an XFS LVM on top of a…
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JFS or XFS or anything else?

After deciding to use LVM2 as volumemanager on our servers there was also the wish for an online resizeable filesystem. After reading a few articles I decided to use JFS in favour of XFS. Now today I had a power outage on our office server and I…
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How to change the file system of a partition in a RAID 1?

First, sorry if the question has already been asked and correctly answered, I did not find anything that satisfies me. I rent a dedicated machine in a datacenter, the machine run with a Debian 10 and has two drives in RAID 1, there are 3 partitions:…
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XFS with No Barrier Mount option deprecated

I tried to perform SQL Server database restore with xfs filesystem and barrier=0 in Azure cloud environment. It performs restore of some 15GB data in around 8 minutes. I heard this option is getting deprecated in near future. Without this option…
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Format new parition of drive with xfs version 4 in Linux

I am working on an arcade machine and it cannot be updated unfortunately. A drive has corrupted data on it and in order to delete it I need to re-partition that drive. (I know it's the data and not the drive because I have used dd to clone the…
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XFS very slow on LVMed Raid 6

i have a new storage server with 6 x 8TB WD Red HDDs. They build a RAID 6 with mdadm and a chunk size of 256k. On top of that mdraid i have LVM which then holds the different filesystems. Initially i wanted to use XFS as filesystem, but the…
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ZFS snapshot zd0 block device

I'm trying to make use of the ability of zfs snapshots. To explain a little how it's configured on my end: zpool create vol0 mirror /dev/sda /dev/sdb zfs create -o volblocksize=128K -V 15T vol0/pprovol I got my ZFS volumes: NAME USED …
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XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc

I am performing a data analysis that entails loading a large data matrix of ~112GB into a memory-mapped file using R programming language, specifically the bigmemory package (see https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bigmemory/index.html). The…
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Cant enable quotas on XFS file system

I'm trying to enable quotas on Centos 7 I ran yum install quota Edited fstab: /dev/mapper/centos-root / xfs defaults,usrquota,grpquota 0 0 UUID=6c443910-a7e9-4e97-8b51-de9d05407cf6 /boot xfs …
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Want to understand XFS strangeness

have a XFS partition that I find to act very strangely. It mounts fine under a system but won't mount under others --of which my main system. As I'm new at XFS, I'd love to hear from users more experienced than me before I just forget about…
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