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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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how to disable journaling on xfs filesystem

How do I disable journaling on xfs file system. I tried tune2fs to disable, it didnt help. Does xfs has different tools/procedure to do so ? tune2fs -o journal_data_writeback /dev/mapper/fedora00-root
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/proc/slabinfo: Input/output error

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and XFS (kernel 3.2.0-38-generic). Because XFS inode cache use too much memory, I want to limit the number of objects used to cache XFS inode. According to the manual, I can limit the number by writing limit to…
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Access xfs quota info from NFS client

I've got an xfs filesystem (on a Centos 6.4 server) mounted via NFS on a client server (Centos 6.3). I can't seem to access the quota info from the client. It simply returns nothing for xfs_quota -c quota ... or xfs_quota -xc report ... or xfs_quota…
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Resize XFS on CentOS after expand Raid

I have a 16Tb partition on Raid 6 array using xfs file system. # df -hT Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 xfs 15T 7.4T 7.2T 51% /backup I reconstructed the Raid using LSI Megaraid tool after add a few…
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FS for many small files, mostly reads?

I need a direction since all the blogs/benchs seems to contradict. Goal: Having a lot of small files on FS in a directory tree fashion similar to this AB/CD/EF... Two size groups : G1 : 10-20 kB G2 : 100-500kB I need really fast access to server…
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Using ZFS or XFS on a Xen guest running Linux

Background: I'm investigating the viability of using a filesystem other than ext3/4, with the ability to run snapshots for backup and rollback purposes. The servers under consideration are mailbox server nodes running on Linode's Xen based VPS…
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Cannot install centos 6.4 with XFS

I would like install centos 6.4 and use XFS as filesystem for some partitions in my configuration. But Anaconda don't propose XFS in the filesystem choice. Then I try to install in text mode but in this case I don't succeed to personalise my…
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SLES 11 recommended filesystem

We are upgrading some servers from SLES 10 to SLES 11 and I just saw that ext4 is not supported. Should I move to XFS or keep ext3? I will be moving the programs and databases to a new VM so reformatting is not a problem. We are currently using…
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XFS - Force write every n minutes?

I'm running the recently-released Fedora 18, and doing some computationally intensive things with it. The result is... unstable, at best. But! That's about what I expected, or at least not what I'm going to complain about here. The problem I have is…
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How can I reduce inode utilization on an ext4 filesystem?

Summary of My Need We put a large amount of files on a filesystem for analysis at a later time. We can't control how many files we're going to have, and this one box needs access to all of them. Unchangeable Limitations I can't change the inode…
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Recommended filesystem for MySQL (xfs vs ext4)

Setting up a MySQL 5.5 server, and wondering what the recommended filesystem is? ext4 or xfs? Running InnoDB and 40% writes 60% reads. Thanks.
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Uneven utilization of disks in xfs-formatted logical volume

We have a backup server with 66TB of available space, set up like so: 12 6TB RAID10 arrays -> 12 PVs -> 1 VG -> 1 LV -> xfs This filesystem is used exclusively for backups (through BackupPC). It receives quite a bit of I/O, but definitely not so…
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EBS+RAID10+XFS slower than EBS+RAID10+EXT3 using MySQL?

We're currently using EC2 with 16 EBS volumes in RAID10 configuration for our MySQL data. I know some people don't recommend to put EBS volumes to RAID but that's not what I'm concerned about at the moment. Current format is ext3, but we're…
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Error growing XFS volume with xfs_growfs

I added another 8TB to my 20TB array and tried to expand it with xfs_growfs, no joy and no idea why it is failing. Much googleing has provided some answers but nothing that has worked. I am at my wits end here, I have been working on this off and on…
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XFS Check/Repair Fails

I have a mysql database server on an EC2 instance with 3 drives in a Raid 0 array. This morning the server crashed and after inspecting the logs, I noticed a Structure Needs Cleaning error(i.e. System Error Code 117). With that I attempted to run an…
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