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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 ...