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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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HP DL380p Gen8 (p420i controller) I/O oddity on XFS partitions

On DL380p gen8 servers using XFS on top of LVM on top of raid 1+0 with 6 disks, an identical workload results in a ten-fold increase in disk writes on RHEL 6 compared to RHEL 5, making applications unusable. Note that I'm not looking at optimizing…
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Performance impact of running different filesystems on a single Linux server

The book "HBase: The definitive guide" states that Installing different filesystems on a single server is not recommended. This can have adverse effects on performance as the kernel may have to split buffer caches to support the different…
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Easy to expand Linux software RAID 5 with XFS. Best practices?

I use my Ubuntu machine as a file server for Windows/Linux/Mac clients using a Samba share. I need it to be easily expandable by just adding more hard drives without having to move any data back and forth. This is how I have done it so far. I have…
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Inode tables shrinking sharply over time causing rsync/inode problems

We setup a Linux (it's on Amazon AWS, a CentOS-like system although we are not exactly sure the customizations done on it) system with 4TB storage as an XFS volume over LVM (ultimately to be used for serving over NFS4, but it is not in use yet), and…
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xfs on lvm on hardware RAID: correct parameters?

I have 10 disks with 8 TB each in a hardware RAID6 (thus, 8 data disks + 2 parity). Following the answer of a very similar question, I hoped for an automatic detection of all necessary parameters. However, when creating the XFS file system at the…
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CentOS 6 doing lots more IO than CentOS 5

I'm benchmarking an application on two identical servers, one is Centos 5.8 and the other is Centos 6.2. My application is running much slower (50% or less) on the Centos 6.2 machine. In attempting to diagnose the issue I'm tracking CPU, RAM, and…
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Converting Amazon EC2 ext4 EBS volume into XFS filesystem

I need to convert my Amazon EC2 ext4 filesystem into a XFS one so I could take consistent snapshots and send them to S3. I'm using custom small image of ubuntu server 10.10 with i686 architecture in us-east. The problem is that I'm only using one…
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Does putting the XFS log on an SSD significantly improve performance?

I have a five disk array running XFS in RAID5, and I would like to improve it's performance. I have seen some hints that putting the log onto a separate device can help, does putting the log onto an SSD help dramtically? In theory, it should, but I…
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Adding 60TB Storage to an SLES 10 Server

I have to add some archive\staging storage to an SLES 10 Server. The requirement is to present fairly large volumes (9-20TB each approx, 60TB or so in total) that will be used to store archive data (literally, this is for a library) comprising large…
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Monitoring XFS filesystem health in Linux

I recently experienced a filesystem meltdown. I had a server running for about 180 days non stop without any issues, but then I noticed weird stuff happen and apparently the ext3 filesystem was in really bad shape. I had the drives and the memory…
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Getting files out of XFS with 64kb block size

I've been on a mission to recover files from one of my 2 perfectly working, non-corrupted, non-encrypted NAS drives that used to be in RAID 1. The NAS was Patriot Javelin S4, which (as I found from my research) uses Promise Fasttrack fake raid…
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How to recover XFS file system with "superblock read failed"

I have a disk from a Buffalo LinkStation that has an XFS partition on it that I cannot mount. Plugging the disk into an SATA->USB caddy on an Ubuntu box. I get the following: $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255…
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How to corrupt a file system

I am going to be testing 'xfs_repair' on some large file systems ( around 50 TB ) as in the past the memory usage is high. While I could test the program only on file systems which were correct it would be good to test them on a corrupt system. So…
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Large RAID stripe size wastes space with small files?

I'm planning a Maildir storage with RAID 0+1(or RAID 10, RAID 5) on XFS filesystem and XFS will be created with stripe unit and width that RAID will use. I don't determine RAID stripe size yet, but the default value is 128KB in my RAID system. If I…
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xfs_growfs: is not a mounted xfs filesystem when trying to grow ol-root

I have 25+ VM's running OL7.5. As they grow/get repurposed I sometimes need to add more HDD to them. I have added space to ol-root and ol-swap many times before, following [in summary] : fdisk to create partition partprobe -s pvcreate…
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