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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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rsync (and scp) failing with no space left on XFS device

I have a fresh install of CentOS 7 with a primary partition of 400GB formatted for XFS. Less than one GB is currently in use. I am trying to rsync 65GB of files over and the copy starts failing between 14GB and 26GB. (I have tried multiple…
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Data recovery for XFS partition

I want to recover data from a XFS partition. It seems that I need to xfs_repair the partition but I am not sure I would lose the data, so I prefer to ask to experts. I run a Virtual Box Linux Mint. Here is what I did: sydney@sydney-VirtualBox ~ $…
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NFS server unresponsive to clients - with processes 'migration' and 'xfssyncd' consuming unusual cpu

I have a CentOS 6.4 fileserver running NFS 4, serving a couple of XFS filesystems. There are a few dozen clients connected to it. Today it slowed to a crawl for the clients - the clients would hang or only respond after a few minutes when accessing…
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XFS slow performance on LVM'ed RAID, faster when RAW or non-LVM

I have a weird issue with a server I am setting up. It's for a filesharing-type website, so fast IO and plenty of capacity are the requirements. OS is CentOS 6.4 64-bit The server in question is a HP DL360p, with 18x drive bays populated with 2TB…
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xfs fails with errors on dmesg

I have a strange error on a linux box with xfs, and I don't know how to debug and fix it. Below is an excerpt from dmesg : Info fld=0x17 end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 34412208504 sd 7:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002 sde:…
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Disabling/Enabling Modules Parameter RHEL

I'm working with kernel module parameters, and I've found myself a bit confused. In particular, I'm attempting to enable posix ACL support for XFS file systems. This requires the XFS module to be loaded with the parameter XFS_POSIX_ACL set to yes. …
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Linux XFS partition could not be mounted (can't read superblock) due to suddenly power shutdown, xfs_repair: read failed: Input/output error

After suddenly shutdown, my home directory which is a XFS partition could not be mounted and I can login to system by my account. But I can login with root account (because root and home directories are separate). My OS is OpenSuse thumbleweed. I…
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MDADM Raid10 event mismatch after restart

I made a raid10 with 8x8TB drives the file system on it is XFS. I never had any issue with it. The raid is configured as near2 and internal bitmap. The drives are connected to a LSI-9211-8i in HBA mode. Last week, I finally bought another set of…
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Unable to mount xfs volume to replay log. Now what?

42TB LUN, formatted in XFS and shared via NFS was reported 'unavailable' by customers. In the end I was forced to restart the file server. The XFS LUN won't mount until it is repaired, and to repair I need to mount it so the log will replay and…
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why my XFS file system got corrupted? root cause analysis

I have a block SAN storage volume mounted to my server via FC, I have formatted the volume with XFS. I started experiencing file system corruption that can be easily repaired with xfs_repair, however I'm unable determine the root cause of the…
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old tape backup using xfsrestore

I have some old tapes that were backups to servers from an old irix machine. I need to get the data off of them and I know they were written to the tapes via 'xfsdump'. I'm running ubuntu 14.04 server. Say I try to restore to a file like: sudo…
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mount(2): Stale file handle NFS after update server to Debian 8

I've several server that mounting NFS on remote backups server Everything worked until I did an update on the NFS server to Debian Jessie. Now some machines work and others not work. Try several docs over internet about problem and i do not get a…
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Optimizing storage of 10-20 million files on RAID5 (currently using LVM+XFS)

Although I've browsed some of the questions here, I think every situation is different and maybe requires a totally different solution. What I have now: Linux software RAID5 on 4x4TB enterprise HDD LVM on top with a few volumes The most important,…
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High load average, but low CPU/IO figures - how to diagnose? (dmesg output included)

We have a Hadoop cluster where arbitrary data nodes will lock up. This is usually pre-ceded by ever-increasing load averages, with CPU and IOwait remaining practically non-existant. The use case for the machines affected is high-IO hadoop data nodes…
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XFS/EXT4: Why is actual file size on disk larger than apparent size? Clarification

On a CentOS 7.1.1503 (3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64) system running KVM/qemu on an XFS filesystem, I'm attempting to work out what specifically is adding additional space to a VM diskimage file. $ ls -ls --block-size=1k 15728648 -rw-------. 1 qemu qemu…
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