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Restrict file access to append only
I have a directory with log files and I'm putting
logs from script launched by users into them. Logging with syslog doesn't seem
possible in this case. (non-daemon rsync)
I want the users to have ...
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File system jfs/btrfs/xfs/ext4
I was looking into some of the requirement, where huge amount of recursive files are written and deleted and looking forward if any FS (file system) as such gives advantage on others.
I am trying to ...
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xfs quota not reliable
I have enabled quotas on an xfs-partition. But it seems to be broken:
$ echo asdf >/disk/l/data/avi/foo
-su: /disk/l/data/avi/foo: Disk quota exceeded
$ quota -f /disk/l
Disk quotas for user avi ...
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What is the difference between a symlink and binding with fstab?
In Eric Hammond's article Running MySQL on Amazon EC2 with EBS he shows how to add a second drive (/vol/) and then progresses to move mysql's config and data there.
/sdh gets mounted as /vol by ...
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Copying a file that is written at the same time
This related question can't solve my exact problem, so I'm writing a similar question.
My scenario is the following: a program (run by wine) writes to a file sized about 10-500 KB. About 1 KB ...
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xfs disk usage is 15-30% bigger than the files
xfs seems to use 15-30% more disk space than the files require:
# du
0 .
# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=5k
5120+0 records in
5120+0 records out
5368709120 bytes (5,4 GB) copied, 10,527 ...
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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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Resizing logical volume with no free extents but with free disk space
I have a 7.9 TB logical volume formatted with XFS filesystem. I have 8 1 TB RAID devices as physical volumes, and 1 volume group that contains all of these devices. I have 2.5 TB free space on my ...
