Questions about XFS filesystem, utilities and other situations where XFS filesystem is relevant.
Questions tagged [xfs]
226 questions
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XFS vs ext4 performance
According to this blog,
XFS is old file system and works slowly with small files.
My first impression when reading this was XFS was not good.
However someone told me that XFS makes disk perform better and this benchmark doesn't make sense.
So I…
user264359
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Is xfs_fsr safe to interrupt?
Is it safe to interrupt (Ctrl-C) a long running xfs_fsr job?
I'm attempting to defragment a very large XFS volume.
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Is it possible to have the External XFS Journal on a RAM disk?
Oracle suggests to have the external journal on a low latency device.
The default location for an XFS journal is on the same block device as the data. As synchronous metadata writes to the journal must complete successfully before any associated…
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Why can't we reduce XFS filesystem?
I know that we can't reduce XFS file-system and it's not supported. However I would like to know the reason why xfs don't support shrink.
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Can I merge an XFS partition with another XFS partition?
I am using an SSD where I have 3 partitions:
$ lsblk /dev/sda
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 2M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 108G 0 part /
└─sda3 8:3 0 3.8G 0 part…
15 Volts
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XFS mount at 100% full, how to pinpoint problem
running SLES 11.4 on a server, there are ~5 disks as Raid-5 via LSI megaraid, which provides 2.2 TB of usable space... when creating this it showed up as /dev/sdb and I created one parition as XFS, mounted it as /data and that showed up as 0% use…
ron
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Parsing xfs_quota -c 'free' output with bash
Is it possible to parse the output of xfs_quota -c "free" /mnt/xfs in a deterministic way? The problem is that depending on the length of the path to the block device mounted on /mnt/xfs its output will be differently formatted.
With a block device…
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XFS: rm does not terminate, xfs_repair not possible
I have a 500 GByte disk with a single XFS file system on it (EDIT: the OS is on another disk). On this disk I have backup data in the form of multiple hard-linked copies of the original data. After each new backup I delete the directory containing…
C-Otto
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xfsrestore: unexpected tape error
I'm trying to test tape backup of a specific directory, made using:
xfsdump -l 0 -f /dev/nst0 -L "session label" -M "media label" -s mybackups /NFSMOUNT
Checking the dump contents succeeds without errors:
xfsrestore -f /dev/nst0 -t
But when to…
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