Tag : file systems

XFS Quota Usage Mismatch On CentOS 6 ?

Posted November 10, 2017 by James Pearson & filed under CentOS Comments: 0

Tags: deleted files, file systems, quota, XFS

We have a number of home directory servers running CentOS 6 exporting XFS file systems over NFSv3We enable user quotas for all users – with a relatively small allocation to each userEvery now and then, we get a user that has a quota mismatch – wh..

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NFS Performance On CentOS 7

Posted May 9, 2015 by Michael Eager & filed under CentOS Comments: 4

Tags: centos, file server, file systems, performance difference

I am setting up a file server with CentOS 7.Im seeing performance which is considerably slower than a similar server running CentOS 6.6.A 3Gb directory can be copied to/from the CentOS 6.6 server in about 50 seconds.The same directory takes about ..

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Filesystem Writes Unexpectedly Slow (CentOS 6.4)

Posted October 13, 2014 by Joakim Ziegler & filed under CentOS Comments: 8

Tags: dd, file systems

I have a rather large box (2×8-core Xeon, 96GB RAM) where I have a couple of disk arrays connected on an Areca controller. I just added a new external array, 8 3TB drives in RAID5, and the testing Im doing right now is on this array, but this seems..

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NFS4 Idmap Question

Posted May 6, 2014 by Peter Wood & filed under CentOS Comments: 3

Tags: file systems, nfs

HTTPD on some of my CentOS5 systems is configured to run as user nobody. Also, it needs access to some exported file systems. CentOS5 uses NFS3 so Ichanged the ownership of the files on the storage server to nobody to give httpd full permissions…

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