[ale] xfs vs. ext4

[Chuck Payne]

Ok, I really need to bone-up on XFS, I see that resize2fs is for ext3/ext4
and for XFS I need use


*xfs_growfs /hom*



http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.htm

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doesn't look like XFS plays well with LVM,  I had just noticed this
> morning that CentOS7 is XFS, if I can't do LVM the way I am use too. I am
> going to have to stick with ext4
>
> [root at localhost /]# vim /etc/fstab
> [root at localhost /]# lvextend -L +50G /dev/mapper/centos-root
>   Extending logical volume root to 100.00 GiB
>   Logical volume root successfully resized
> [root at localhost /]# resize2fs /dev/mapper/centos-root
> resize2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)
> resize2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open
> /dev/mapper/centos-root
> Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:
>
>> ext4 never gained momentum.  Red Hat made it the default in 6.x, and then
>> dropped it in favor of XFS in 7.x
>> As has already been pointed out, XFS can't be shrunk.  However, it is
>> mature, scalable, and stable.  I've been using it as the default FS on all
>> of our servers for 7-8 years.  (We are mostly a SLES shop).
>> I'm just now starting to do some testing with BtrFS, but we don't have it
>> in production yet.  I was on the SLES 12 beta team, so got plenty of lead
>> time to experiment with it...
>> Allen B.
>>
>>
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>> The University of Alabama
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>> Subject: [ale] xfs vs. ext4
>>
>> Guys,
>>
>> I have notices that both openSUSE and CentOS 7 have move away from ext4
>> as the default filesystem to XFS, any reason why?
>>
>> What does XFS give that ext4 doesn't?
>>
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