The SGI XFS Filesystem ====================== 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. Options ======= 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. dmapi Enable the DMAPI (Data Management API) event callouts. Use with the "mtpt" option. irixsgid Do not inherit the ISGID bit on subdirectories of ISGID directories, if the process creating the subdirectory is not a member of the parent directory group ID. This matches IRIX behavior. 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. mtpt=mountpoint Use with the "dmapi" option. The value specified here will be included in the DMAPI mount event, and should be the path of the actual mountpoint that is used. 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. 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. nouuid Don't check for double mounted file systems using the file system uuid. This is useful to mount LVM snapshot volumes.