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A summary, according to man

Don @ April 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet

#man less
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Extasy! (err, rather XTC Radio, that is)

Don @ April 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet

http://www.xtcfm.net/ Is seriously addicting.

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xfs fs creation optimization

Don @ April 25, 2008 # No Comment Yet

mkfs.xfs -d agcount=4 -l size=32m /dev/sdx
Pass noatime,nodiratime,osyncisdsync to your fstab and mount. -l size=32m, tells mkfs.xfs to configure your filesystem so that it has a 32 MB metadata journal. In my situation, it is important while under heavy load the journal will not fill up; or less of a possibility that it would. [...]

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