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XFS is a scalable, high-performance journaled filesystem that performs very well for parallel accesses/writes.

XFS combines advanced journaling technology with full 64-bit addressing and scalable structures and algorithms. This combination delivers the most scalable high-performance filesystem ever conceived.1

XFS is a full 64-bit filesystem, and thus is capable of handling filesystems as large as a million terabytes.1

1 Source: SGI, "XFS: A high-performance journaling filesystem" (project page)

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Why do I get more free space than ext4 after formatting in XFS?

I've bought a 1TB external hard drive and after formatting the entire drive in ext4 Nautilus says there are 934.3 GB of free space. I've also tested formatting the drive in XFS, and in this case there are 999.7 GB of free space. Why more than 60 GB…
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What's the command to defrag XFS?

I have a /home partition in a separate disk with XFS, how do I de-fragment it ? (on-line or off-line) I haven't tried anything yet and the / partition has BTRFS. Also how to schedule it would be nice. But I can check that out in already responded…
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xfs filesystem being mounted at /disk supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff)

I have noticed this in kernel logs (with 20.10): xfs filesystem being mounted at XYZ supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) This was V4 of the XFS file system. So I thought, I would buy a new disk, and I would format with 20.10 to V5 version…
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Ubuntu 14.04 bad taint on XFS and BTRFS

I've done a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 on a physical machine and a virtual machine and after the first reboot (and also at random times) on the screen I get a bad taint message for XFS and BTRFS modules. I don't currently have any XFS or BTRFS…
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Why is xfs filesystem type greyed out in Gparted?

I have a large hd that only 1/2 of it is an ext4 for /home. I am trying to make another partition using the XFS filesystem but its greyed out in Gparted. From what I have read here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XFS its already installed and loaded in the…
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What are the steps to modify a filesystem (say XFS)?

I intend to make some changes to XFS filesystem. I have never done this before. I am running Ubuntu 12.04 kernel 3.2.0-40-generic-pae Is there a documentation on the steps involved in doing so? I tried google but found nothing of much use. I have a…
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Ubuntu 14.04 bad taint

Any body got the solution for the below question? please share it. I couldn't add comment ,so i created new question here. Ubuntu 14.04 bad taint on XFS and BTRFS Problem: I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on Dell R610 server. It is a fresh…
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Unable to mount device - believe it's XFS type

I have a hard drive from a Javelin S4 (similar to Promise NS4600N) enclosure that was setup as a single disk RAID0 that I have tried adding to my Linux Ubuntu server (14.x) generic "Linux 3.13.0-49-generic" I believe the FS type is xfs based on…
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What happens in bcache if the cache ssd dies?

I'm creating a NAS and I've been doing a lot of research on the different SSD caches. I have a 120gb ssd which is more than enough for the OS so I want to use most of it as a cache for the md raid5 array. Before I commit to this setup I want to know…
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Is there anyway to undo wipefs?

So I (very stupidly) performed a wipefs on my XFS formatted 4tb Linux (software) raid 5 array in trying to convert over to a bcache setup (I was following some instructions online and should have paid more attention to what wipefs does...). Is…
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Expanding an encrypted xfs volume

I am working on expanding a currently attached volume to one of my Ubuntu Amazon AWS servers, but I am having some problems. I already created a new volume from a snapshot, then attached the newly created volume to the EC2 instance. I prepare the…
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How can I recover files from an XFS file system without spending money on software?

I have an old Iomega NAS, that has stopped working. The drive is still good, I just need to recover the files. Both of my Ubuntu machines recognize the drives in the Disks utility, but I can't do anything with them beyond formatting. I have tried…
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How to increase space allocated to inode in XFS filesystem

We are facing a problem with a ceph osd node which uses an XFS file system. The mount has become non-writeable. It gives the following error: root@fab-prod-ceph-h3:/var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-6# touch hrushi touch: cannot touch `hrushi': No space left…
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How to install GRUB on RAID6 with Ubuntu Server 16.04.1?

The hardware I am using uses a "BIOS legacy" boot schema, so no UEFI stuff is involved. My initial setup has 4 SAS disks from which I created a raid6 device (md0). Then I partitioned it into md0p1 for / and md0p5 for /home and formatted these in…
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Ubuntu Server RAID6 (md) + LVM2: formatting stuck at 33%

BIG NOTE. I am not a newbie with Linux and this is not the first time I install Linux in such a manner. I am installing a new Ubuntu Server (16.04, x86_64). Its four disks have been put together to create a RAID6 device (md0). This has then been…
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