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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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Filesystem for an external drive that'll only connect to Linux

I just bought a new 500GB external harddrive. Most of the time I only store operating system ISO's on those things and some movies. Large files anyway, well over 4GiB sometimes, so FAT is out of the question. So, I'm left wondering. My old external…
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XFS I/O Error accessing Logical Block 0 of an LVM snapshot: is the drive or snapshot bad?

I have OpenSuSE 11.3 running as a Xen host on a machine with 8x296GB Cheetah 15k.6 SAS disks, 4 of which are mirrored, the other 4 striped. I'm using LVM to manage the disks and they are formatted with OCFS2. I configured a Xen domU as a Logical…
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fstrim is very slow on xfs and always return same value unlike ext4

I just noticed if I do time fstrim /; time fstrim / the 2nd call usually print 0 bytes trimmed and finished immediately. However if I do same thing on XFS, 2 of the calls are taking exactly same time and print exactly same…
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How to recover XFS file system which xfs_repair not work because of busy?

I got problem in disk of my database which is xfs file system. I tried to repair [root@scan /]# xfs_repair /dev/md127 xfs_repair: cannot open /dev/md127: Device or resource busy [root@scan /]# ls /data ls: cannot access /data: Input/output…
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xfs: can't read superblock

I get the following error: [root@mediaserv ~]# mount /dev/mapper/media1 /media mount: /media: can't read superblock on /dev/mapper/media1. This is Fedora 33. I have a RAID5 of 8x 8TB WD Red drives running on an Adaptec 7805Q RAID controller, this…
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Move xfs journal from internal to external without losing data

I have a big XFS filesystem containing about 3TB of data. This runs on some network device at our virtual server provider. We created it with the default settings, thus using an internal journal. Because of the slow response of this device, I would…
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Confirming parameters for XFS filesystem and LVM volume striping over 2 ADAPT (RAID6-like) volumes

We are setting up an ADAPT0 (RAID-60-like) configuration for a file server. We have six disk pools. Each consists of 14 disks and is set up using ADAPT. According to Dell's official white paper, ADAPT is similar to RAID 6 but distributes spare…
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How to best use large NVMe array for VMWare Datastore

I recently acquired a Supermicro SYS-1029P-N32R with 16 14TB NVMe SSD's (Micron 9300 Pro) at work. We have 100 gigabit networking on the box to our VMWare hosts. We've tried using FreeNAS to host ZFS zvol's as iSCSI LUNs, but were unimpressed with…
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Quota on filesystem mounted via SSHFS

On client C, a directory from server S is mounted via SSHFS (authenticated as user U). The relevant filesystem on S has a quota set. How can a user on C see her quota? The quota command run on C displays nothing. Is there a way to make it work? S…
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Failed XFS after resizing partition

I pretty much followed the same general idea as here: Resizing a partition -Resize VMware disk: Through vSphere, resize disk from 100GB to 300GB (Reboot VM) -Delete partition (fdisk /dev/sdb, d, 1) -Recreate partition (While still in the same fdisk…
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xfs_db reports high file fragmentation where VM is located, but VM shows almost no fragmentation

I have several libvirt VMs stored on xfs partitions and am using gluster to replicate the storage. The VMs use qcow2 for storage. Some of the partitions where the VMs are located indicate high file fragmentation when I run xfs_fb. But the VMs show…
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MariaDB 10.3 CPU usage, Server performance suggestions

my platform: 8 cores, CPU benchmark > 10k (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v2 @ 3.70GHz) 32GB of RAM 2x 7200 SATA enterprise HDD, 128MB cache, each of them have physical 512b block size Actual file system (/var on md3) is XFS (128GB), RAID level 0…
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Understanding XFS inode limits

I reached the inode limit on my XFS partition. There are plenty of questions about this. Some suggest the answer is to increase the maximum percentage of space allocated for inodes. Or, as the xfs_growfs manpage puts it: -m Specify a new value…
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xfs slow performance; ls hang

I have a very strange problem with a xfs on a centos7 storage server. On this one particular fs in lvm, it had been very slow in many different occasion. At first I thought it was a read and/or write, as cp of a 4.5 GB iso file took 100x longer…
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40tb storage on sles 11 sp1

I managed to set /dev/sdb to gpt, mkfs.xfs then mount it. But whenever I rsycnc file, it will shows kernel error related to xfs in log messages and failed at about 5GB to 6GB total size rsync. I read that if I want to use ext4, I need to recompile…
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