CentOS, XFS, VirtualBox – Can They Just Get Along?
I am running VirtualBox 4.1 on CentOS 6 and I got this warning that putting your VM’s into an XFS filesystem is risky. I have also heard some rumors on the net to this effect. Does anyone know in more...
View ArticleNFS – Strage Problem – Solved
> >> Hi, >> >> Are /etc and /var/named/master on separate filesystems? NFS won’t allow >> you to mount multiple shares if they are both on the same filesystem. >>...
View Articlepvcreate limitations on big disks?
OK folks, I’m back at it again. Instead of taking my J4400 ( 24 x 1T disks) and making a big RAID60 out of it which Linux cannot make a filesystem on, I’m created 4 x RAID6 which each are 3.64T I then...
View Article11TB Ext4 Filesystem – Filesystem Alternatives?
Hi All.I have a CentOS server:CentOS 5.6 x86_64 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.CentOS.plus e4fsprogs-1.41.12-2.el5.x86_64which has a 11TB ext4 filesystem. I have problems with running fsck on it and would like to...
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Poor Rsync Performance After Upgrade From 5.8 X86 To 6.3 X64
Greetings-The subject sums it up…I have a Dell 2950 acting as a general purpose ‘storage’ machine, handling some NFS work for some local servers, and also pulling in rsync backups of some largish...
View ArticleBackup Of Large Filesystems >500GB
I’ve a small system that I use to support a number of churches. I provide web and email for them. My current server is running CentOS 6.3 with paired 1TB drives in a RAID1 configuration. It works well....
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XFS Inode64 NFS Export On CentOS6
Hi,I am trying to get the most out of my 40TB xfs file system and I have noticed that the inode64 mount option gives me a roughly 30% performance increase (besides the other useful things). The problem...
View ArticleXFS, Inode64, And Remount
Hi all,I was recently poking more into the inode64 mount option for XFS filesystems. I seem to recall a comment that you could remount a filesystem with inode64, but then a colleague ran into issues...
View ArticleZFS On Linux Testing
Hi Ben,Yes, the initial replication of a large filesystem is *very* time consuming! But it makes sleeping at night much easier. I did have to crank up the inotify kernel parameters by a significant...
View ArticleCentOS 7, Xfs
Well, I’ve set up one of our new JetStors. xfs took *seconds* to put a filesystem on it.We’re talking what df -h shows as 66TB.(Pardon me, my mind just SEGV’d on that statement….)Using bonnie++, I...
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