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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.

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Recreate XFS Partition with Existing Filesystem

I have a CentOS server with two RAID arrays. The OS array and a DATA array. Long story short, recently had tons of trouble with the OS and had to reload CentOS (was 5.7 and went to 6.5). Everything ...
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XFS disk becomes unavailable after a while

Ubuntu 12.04 (but the same was on 11.10 before upgrading) WD MyBook, 2TB, no RAID (or RAID0, not completely sure, anyway no mirroring, both 1TB disks are in use, mounted as a single device). ...
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Debian package performance on XFS, btrfs, ext3, ext4

I did 4 clean installations of debian 6 and measured time of installing some average virtual package. FS options are default. time apt-get install build-essential I got very strange results (min:sec,...
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Should use EXT4 or XFS to be able to 'sync'/backup to S3?

It's my first message here, so bear with me... (I have already checked quite a few of the "Related Questions" suggested by the editor) Here's the setup, a brand new dedicated server (8GB RAM, some ...
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Weird used/free space view of network drives with Samba and XFS

I'm using XFS project quotas to offer some private and limited disk space to my users, running Windows. It works pretty well, as the users can't exceed the quota like expected. However, the Samba's ...
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Failed to Partition a 10TB HD?

Before I tried to partition a 10TB HDD again, parted saw it: # parted /dev/sdb (parted) print list Model: ATA ST10000NM0016-1T (scsi) Disk /dev/...
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df differs from du a lot, nfsd service seems matter

I know there have been a lot of discussion on the df/du discrepancy topic. But here I’d post a special issue and ask for some hints. here is the detail( with a hardware raid5 with 6 sas disks) system ...
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AWS XFS performance issues. Stripped setup vs single disk setup

I wanted to share an issue (I guess I may be misunderstanding some concepts) that I'm facing with some benchmarks I'm doing to XFS setups, as we are going to recently migrate a service to a new ...
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Check XFS project quota on NFS client

I am implementing project quotas on a file server (Centos 7.8.2003) that has data volumne formatted using XFS. File access to this server will occur using NFS. I know how to check user quotas on the ...
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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 ...
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What are the guidelines for xfs metadata size?

I will use a 4TB disk on a CentOS machine that will serve Samba shares to Windows clients. I understand that xfs can write the metadata in a different physical disk. How large/fast should be that ...
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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 ...
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RAID geometry parameters for XFS on top of LVM

I need to set up an XFS filesystem on top of LVM on top of a hardware RAID-6 (10x 6TB + 2 parity) and I found the guideline on http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ ("How to calculate the correct sunit,...
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How can I recalculate XFS projects quota?

I have a XFS formatted disk and several projects quota in it. # xfs_quota -xc 'report -phN' foo 20K 22.9G 22.9G 00 [------] bar 396K 5.7G 5.7G 00 [------] buz 12K 22.9G 22.9G 00 [-...
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Corrupt XFS header

On my file server I ended up growing the RAID (5) and then I went ahead and deleted and remade the partition holding the XFS filesystem. I used Parted to do this. After parted ran I tried to mount ...
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XFS Realtime (CONFIG_XFS_RT), Is it really usefull for high i/o servers?

Recently we got more crashes and i/o errors from XFS filesystem. The reason what we thinks about it because of high disk i/o. We are uploading several GB's of data and deleting per week for big data ...
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blockdev --getbsz reports different blocksize when partition is mounted

I have a centos 7 machine and am trying to mount an xfs parition with a 4096 kb block size. when the xfs patition is unmounted: blockdev --getbsz /dev/xvdc 4096 when mounting using mount -t xfs ...
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Best filesystem for storing photos on Linux [closed]

I have 200+G of photos I usually keep on my main computer so that they are always available. File sizes range from 2-3MB JPGs to 10-12MB RAW files. I thought the nice old ext3 could be abandoned in ...
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Safe filesystem for Email homedir storage? XFS? JFS? Btrfs? Reiser4?

i'm building an email system and considering some filesystem that support online-resize, safe when power-outage, and does not restrict number of files per directory(or at least can hold some millions ...
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Risk of not repairing "Structure needs cleaning" XFS errors

I have an XFS file system with file system errors affecting some non-critical files. I wish to repair it; the business wishes to continue to run with those errors. What are the known risks of not ...
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How to "align" a Linux file system with a SSD?

I'm interested in getting a dedicated server with a SSD, probably Corsair Force series CSSD-F120GB2-BRKT. It'll be an Linux server, most likely running XFS (but I'm open to other alternatives). ...
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Upgrading server motherboard while maintaining 12 SATA ports

My office has been using a FreeNAS server that was built with desktop hardware. We use it for storing RAW photos (~50mb each). We have 3 workstations that access (browse, retouch, save) the files ...
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Filesystem recommendation for 5 TB file storage

I have a locally attached 5 TB RAID6 system (IBM DS3512). It will be used as a storage for large data files that are written in sequential writes, and then read back for processing. Eventually the ...
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File system, that handles over 2 million files

I'm going to store files in one folder in my server. The amount of files will exceed 2 million. Each file size will have range between 5MB - 100MB. What kind of file system can handle well that ...
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Optimal way to format 20TB partition with XFS in linux? [closed]

I have a 20TB RAID5 array (LSI 9265-8i / 8 x 3TB 7200rpm drives) configured with a 1MB stripe size. What's the optimal way to partition, and format, this partition in Linux to maximize performance ...
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how to delete a xfs file system from logical volume (lvm2), to achieve the goal being this logical volume without any file system?

I have LVM RedHat 8 intall and there's one Volume Group there. Fri May 19 [michal@Ora2 ~]$ sudo vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name ol System ID Format lvm2 ...
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Expanding XFS file system from another device?

I have two virtual devices on a fedora system. Both are in a raid 5 configuration. No LVM is in place. The system it’s self is installed on one of the devices. That same device is also the one with ...
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xfs superblock corrupted after power cut

Like others before me the superbock on my xfs drive has become corrupted. I've tried xfs_repair and xfs_repair -L to restore the drive but both report back the same result: Phase 1 - find and verify ...
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Disk cache impaction on linux df result

I am having a problem in which casing the df results unreliable. I'm using the xfs files system on sles 11 sp3. Basically there is a big difference (a few GBs) between the free size before and after I ...
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Rsync Backup from XFS to ZFS

I currently have a backup solution in place that uses rsync to backup all out Linux servers from remote sites, to an XFS drive in our HQ. I am now trying to rsync the folder from the XFS drive in our ...
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Accessing file on XFS partition over NFS locks up application

After upgrading the local file server to Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS, I can no longer run mutt or svn. The lock up happens when the apps attempt to access the NFS mounted drives. I did an ltrace and ...
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I can't mount with mount -a for error wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock but I can mount manually

I usually use UUID to mount my devices, because I use a lot of external ones and so I control it better. But when I want to mount partitions formatted with XFS I have problems Generally this works for ...
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How to move space from my XFS /home partition to XFS root partition

I am running centos 7 minimal. My /home partition is about 500gb and root is only 50gb. I need help figuring out how to reduce the /home partition so I have free space to allocate to the root ...
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blockdev report different blocksize if mounted

I have a proliant running Red Hat 7, with two data disk with raid 1 (hardware raid). I created the file sytem using this command: mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb Default block size for xfs is 4096. So ...
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how do I clone a disk that is represented by a vmdk file? [closed]

I have VirtualBox installed on Windows 8.1. I have created a CentOS 7 virtual machine that loads the contents of a detached hard drive that is connected to the PC via a SATA Wire. The virtual ...
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XFS maximum log size - SW RAID 10 (mdadm) - SLES 11 SP1

I am a bit puzzled about the maximum metadata log size that can be setup in a XFS file system. I have found the same information everywhere: the maximum size is 64K blocks or 128M, whichever is ...
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EXT3 vs EXT4 vs XFS

Recently I read a lot about "new" file systems. I checked some benchmarks that show MySQL working faster on EXT4 or XFS (and some other FS). I also "found" that XFS and EXT4 are included in CentOS ...
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Poor XFS performance -- what's going on?

I recently formatted a 20TB array as XFS. For file transfers < 10G performance is fantastic. However once I exceed 10G disk I/O decays logarithmically. I have the journal on the same disk. When ...
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best filesystem for mysql @ net-volume @ ec2

What is the best filesystem to use for EC2 network volume to be used for mysql database? And what mount options to use? Specifically is there a better option then xfs +noatime? This is the option I ...
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How to cleanly kill a stuck docker service?

Working with a Centos7 with 3.10 kernel, docker 19.03.12. Eventually, one of the docker images got full and wrote the entire /var/ mount to 100%, crashing both the docker service and the running ...
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I can mount a samba share from windows and see what it holds but cannot create files or directories

[Newbie warning! this is my first time setting up Samba. I'm almost there but...] Server is running Centos 8, Samba V4.10.4 Shared filesystem is xfs, I have enabled extended attributes and tested ...
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Can't grow XFS file system on Amazon EC2

I added some space to an EBS volume on an Amazon EC2 but tried growing the partition before it had finished optimizing the disk and making all the space available. Now I can see the correct drive size ...
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Why does XFS uses lvm cache chunk size instead the raid5 setup for sunit/swidth

I have 4 disks available on my virtual machine for testing sdb, sdc, sdd, and sde. The first 3 disks are used for a RAID5 configuration, the last disk is used as lvm cache drive. What I don't ...
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Recover file damaged by vi when over quota?

A user edited a file while he was over quota, and the new file could not be written back to disk. He used vi. The disk is on a NFS server which uses XFS. CentOS 6 on the NFS server and CentOS 7 on ...
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XFS Folder Dates

I have a server running Centos 7, kernel 3.10.0-514.16.1.el7.x86_64, Samba 4.5.2, and XFS. We archive documents in a bunch of small .tif files, so XFS works great for us. The folder is mounted in ...
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Rotating incremental backups using xfsdump

With rsync I can create a set of incremental backups, and delete backups older than a certain age. Then the oldest backup becomes the new base backup, essentially. Is this possible with xfsdump? Once ...
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xfs_growfs error: maximum is 18350080?

I have a 70 GB filesystem mounted from a loopback file that needed more space. I increased the size of the file from 75161928000 to 75200000000 (starting conservative) via sudo truncate -s ...
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Slower file create on faster server. Why?

I have thwo servers. The old one is 24GB RAM, i7-950 @ 3,0Ghz, 2x 1,5TB SATA HDD (ST31500341AS). The new is 32GB RAM, i7-3770 @ 3,4GHz, 2x 3,0TB SATA HDD (ST3000DM001-9YN166). Now I noiticed, ...
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How many subdirectories does the XFS filesystem support within a given directory?

EXT3 supports 32,000 subdirectories. EXT4 supports 64,000... I've read about people having millions of subdirectories on the XFS filesystem, but can't find an exact value referenced anywhere. How ...
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Is this infrastructure safe for scaling EBS online?

Our application uses EBS to store data. The storage requirement of the application grows rapidly as users signup. We need to do it online so that users don't experience downtime with the application. ...
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