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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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Can Btrfs use SSD for metadata and leave bulk data on HDD?

is it possible for Btrfs to use SSD for metadata only & leave bulk data on less costly storage such as HDD? I refered to this page Using_Btrfs_with_Multiple_Devices and can not find a solution. Thanks!
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CEPH's raw space usage

I can't understand ceph raw space usage. I have 14 HDD (14 OSD's) on 7 servers , 3TB each HDD ~ 42 TB raw space in total. ceph -s osdmap e4055: 14 osds: 14 up, 14 in pgmap v8073416: 1920 pgs, 6 pools, 16777 GB data, 4196 kobjects …
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changing filesystem format from xfs to ext4 without losing data

I have a fresh Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) running on a laptop. where I defined the filesystems as: mount point / on ext4 (46 Gb) mount point /home on jfs (63 GB) swap as 3 Gb I left the machine over night to do some task, without AC power supply.…
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What does sunit=0 and swidth=0 mean for XFS file system?

I created an XFS file system using default parameters at the time of creation of a system. Now looking at the output of xfs_info, it show 0 for the values of sunit and swidth. I can't seem to find an explanation of what 0 means in this context. …
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Rsync size is difference from source to destination

I'm using rsync with the options -r for recursive -l copy symlinks as symlinks -t preserve modification time -D preserve devices and specials -v verbose --prune-empty-dirs The source FS is ext4 and the destination is XFS. I've copied few hundred…
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XFS Adding Quotas - Skip Quota check on first mount/boot

We run a 14TB XFS fileserver on our cluster and want to add quota support. This is running 3.9.2-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 kernel under CentOS 6.3 (Final). The issue is when we unmount the XFS RAID, and re-mount it adding quota support, the mount command…
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XFS: no space left on device, (but I have 850GB available!)

I'm using a combination of mdadm, lvm2, and XFS on Amazon EC2. So far, I've had success running a RAID 5 volume built from a number of EBS volumes. The EBS volumes are attached and used with mdadm to create the RAID 5. Then, I use LVM to present the…
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Mount XFS partition with < 4k block size

I have an XFS partition with a 64k blocksize. But I can only mount it in Ubuntu 10.10 when the blocksize is the default of 4k. How can I mount a partition with the larger blocksize? This works: sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb1 -b size=4k -d agcount=32 -l…
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It is XFS reliable? In case of a power gone off is xfs riskier that ext3 in data corruption/safey?

I have been having some electrical issues,mostly power going out suddenly for a few months,and although ups solve the thing mostly. But still i am worried about filesystem corruption,and data lost. It is xfs worse than ext3 or less reliable when the…
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Why do my SSD read latency benchmarks get markedly worse when I put an XFS filesystem on top?

I am benchmarking a small server box based on the SuperMicro E300-8D. I've installed the latest CentOS 7.5 with the latest updates, 64GB of DDR4-2100 RAM, and a Samsung 970 EVO 1TB NVMe SSD. The OS is installed on a USB stick in the internal USB…
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Centos7 - Buffer I/O error on dev sda, logical block xxxxxxxxx, lost async page write

I have a webserver that have the content in HP MSA2040 Storage (10 tb total storage). I keep getting error like below Jul 31 19:06:24 xxxxxxxx*** kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 7094923416 Jul 31 19:06:24 xxxxxxxx*** kernel:…
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VPS: How can I update the available hard disk space after upgrade?

I made an upgrade of a VPS hosted on OVH, specifically from VPS CLOUD 1 to VPS CLOUD 2 that have 25gb more of previous solution (50gb total). On this VPS is installed CentOS 7.2.1511 There is the result of df -HT [root@srv ~]# df -HT File system …
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What is the default journal commit interval of XFS?

Ext3 and Ext4 have a default journal commit interval of 5 seconds, which can be changed with the 'commit' mount option. I can verify that my VirtualBox host indeed flashes its disk icon after 5 seconds (or whatever value I set for the commit mount…
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How to Increase the Size of an XFS File System?

I just created an Amazon AWS EC2 instance running RHEL7: [root@ip-10-184-161-46 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.0 (Maipo) [root@ip-10-184-161-46 ~]# And even though I selected 10GB as my storage capacity, for…
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Can't mount XFS partition anymore

I have 9 partitions formatted as XFS on my server. When I try to mount one of them, it fails. The others mount fine. root@fileserver2 # mount | grep xfs | head -1 /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/hdd1 type xfs (rw,noatime) root@fileserver2 # mount -t xfs…
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