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The SGI XFS Filesystem

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XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem which originated

on the SGI IRIX platform.  It is completely multi-threaded, can

support large files and large filesystems, extended attributes,

variable block sizes, is extent based, and makes extensive use of

Btrees (directories, extents, free space) to aid both performance

and scalability.

Refer to the documentation at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/

for further details.  This implementation is on-disk compatible

with the IRIX version of XFS.

Mount Options

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When mounting an XFS filesystem, the following options are accepted.

  biosize=size

        Sets the preferred buffered I/O size (default size is 64K).

        "size" must be expressed as the logarithm (base2) of the

        desired I/O size.

        Valid values for this option are 14 through 16, inclusive

        (i.e. 16K, 32K, and 64K bytes).  On machines with a 4K

        pagesize, 13 (8K bytes) is also a valid size.

        The preferred buffered I/O size can also be altered on an

        individual file basis using the ioctl(2) system call.

  ikeep/noikeep

        When inode clusters are emptied of inodes, keep them around

        on the disk (ikeep) - this is the traditional XFS behaviour

        and is still the default for now.  Using the noikeep option,

        inode clusters are returned to the free space pool.

  logbufs=value

        Set the number of in-memory log buffers.  Valid numbers range

        from 2-8 inclusive.

        The default value is 8 buffers for filesystems with a

        blocksize of 64K, 4 buffers for filesystems with a blocksize

        of 32K, 3 buffers for filesystems with a blocksize of 16K

        and 2 buffers for all other configurations.  Increasing the

        number of buffers may increase performance on some workloads

        at the cost of the memory used for the additional log buffers

        and their associated control structures.

  logbsize=value

        Set the size of each in-memory log buffer.

        Size may be specified in bytes, or in kilobytes with a "k" suffix.

        Valid sizes for version 1 and version 2 logs are 16384 (16k) and

        32768 (32k).  Valid sizes for version 2 logs also include

        65536 (64k), 131072 (128k) and 262144 (256k).

        The default value for machines with more than 32MB of memory

        is 32768, machines with less memory use 16384 by default.

  logdev=device and rtdev=device

        Use an external log (metadata journal) and/or real-time device.

        An XFS filesystem has up to three parts: a data section, a log

        section, and a real-time section.  The real-time section is

        optional, and the log section can be separate from the data

        section or contained within it.

  noalign

        Data allocations will not be aligned at stripe unit boundaries.

  noatime

        Access timestamps are not updated when a file is read.

  norecovery

        The filesystem will be mounted without running log recovery.

        If the filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, it is likely to

        be inconsistent when mounted in "norecovery" mode.

        Some files or directories may not be accessible because of this.

        Filesystems mounted "norecovery" must be mounted read-only or

        the mount will fail.

  nouuid

        Don't check for double mounted file systems using the file system uuid.

        This is useful to mount LVM snapshot volumes.

  osyncisosync

        Make O_SYNC writes implement true O_SYNC.  WITHOUT this option,

        Linux XFS behaves as if an "osyncisdsync" option is used,

        which will make writes to files opened with the O_SYNC flag set

        behave as if the O_DSYNC flag had been used instead.

        This can result in better performance without compromising

        data safety.

        However if this option is not in effect, timestamp updates from

        O_SYNC writes can be lost if the system crashes.

        If timestamp updates are critical, use the osyncisosync option.

  quota/usrquota/uqnoenforce

        User disk quota accounting enabled, and limits (optionally)

        enforced.

  grpquota/gqnoenforce

        Group disk quota accounting enabled and limits (optionally)

        enforced.

  sunit=value and swidth=value

        Used to specify the stripe unit and width for a RAID device or

        a stripe volume.  "value" must be specified in 512-byte block

        units.

        If this option is not specified and the filesystem was made on

        a stripe volume or the stripe width or unit were specified for

        the RAID device at mkfs time, then the mount system call will

        restore the value from the superblock.  For filesystems that

        are made directly on RAID devices, these options can be used

        to override the information in the superblock if the underlying

        disk layout changes after the filesystem has been created.

        The "swidth" option is required if the "sunit" option has been

        specified, and must be a multiple of the "sunit" value.

sysctls

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The following sysctls are available for the XFS filesystem:

  fs.xfs.stats_clear            (Min: 0  Default: 0  Max: 1)

        Setting this to "1" clears accumulated XFS statistics

        in /proc/fs/xfs/stat.  It then immediately reset to "0".

  fs.xfs.sync_interval          (Min: HZ  Default: 30*HZ  Max: 60*HZ)

        The interval at which the xfssyncd thread for xfs filesystems

        flushes metadata out to disk. This thread will flush log

        activity out, and do some processing on unlinked inodes

  fs.xfs.error_level            (Min: 0  Default: 3  Max: 11)

        A volume knob for error reporting when internal errors occur.

        This will generate detailed messages & backtraces for filesystem

        shutdowns, for example.  Current threshold values are:

                XFS_ERRLEVEL_OFF:       0

                XFS_ERRLEVEL_LOW:       1

                XFS_ERRLEVEL_HIGH:      5

  fs.xfs.panic_mask             (Min: 0  Default: 0  Max: 127)

        Causes certain error conditions to call BUG(). Value is a bitmask;

        AND together the tags which represent errors which should cause panics:

                XFS_NO_PTAG                     0

                XFS_PTAG_IFLUSH                 0x00000001

                XFS_PTAG_LOGRES                 0x00000002

                XFS_PTAG_AILDELETE              0x00000004

                XFS_PTAG_ERROR_REPORT           0x00000008

                XFS_PTAG_SHUTDOWN_CORRUPT       0x00000010

                XFS_PTAG_SHUTDOWN_IOERROR       0x00000020

                XFS_PTAG_SHUTDOWN_LOGERROR      0x00000040

        This option is intended for debugging only.

  fs.xfs.irix_symlink_mode      (Min: 0  Default: 0  Max: 1)

        Controls whether symlinks are created with mode 0777 (default)

        or whether their mode is affected by the umask (irix mode).

  fs.xfs.irix_sgid_inherit      (Min: 0  Default: 0  Max: 1)

        Controls files created in SGID directories.

        If the group ID of the new file does not match the effective group

        ID or one of the supplementary group IDs of the parent dir, the

        ISGID bit is cleared if the irix_sgid_inherit compatibility sysctl

        is set.

  fs.xfs.restrict_chown         (Min: 0  Default: 1  Max: 1)

        Controls whether unprivileged users can use chown to "give away"

        a file to another user.

  fs.xfs.refcache_size          (Min: 0  Default: 128  Max: 512)

        Controls the size of the NFS refcache, which holds references

        on files opened via NFS to improve performance.  The value

        is the maximum number of files which can be in the cache at

        any one time.

  fs.xfs.refcache_purge         (Min: 0  Default: 32  Max: 512)

        Controls the number of entries purged from the NFS refcache

        every sync interval.

  fs.xfs.inherit_sync           (Min: 0  Default: 1  Max 1)

        Setting this to "1" will cause the "sync" flag set

        by the chattr(1) command on a directory to be

        inherited by files in that directory.

  fs.xfs.inherit_nodump         (Min: 0  Default: 1  Max 1)

        Setting this to "1" will cause the "nodump" flag set

        by the chattr(1) command on a directory to be

        inherited by files in that directory.

  fs.xfs.inherit_noatime        (Min: 0  Default: 1  Max 1)

        Setting this to "1" will cause the "noatime" flag set

        by the chattr(1) command on a directory to be

        inherited by files in that directory.

  vm.pagebuf.stats_clear        (Min: 0  Default: 0  Max: 1)

        Setting this to "1" clears accumulated pagebuf statistics

        in /proc/fs/pagebuf/stat.  It then immediately reset to "0".

  vm.pagebuf.flush_age          (Min: 1*HZ  Default: 15*HZ  Max: 300*HZ)

        The age at which dirty metadata buffers are flushed to disk

  vm.pagebuf.flush_int          (Min: HZ/2  Default: HZ  Max: 30*HZ)

        The interval at which the list of dirty metadata buffers is

        scanned.