How to reduce the time to repair an XFS filesystem

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There are some options available to xfs_repair that we can use to reduce the time it takes to repair a filesystem.

The option to xfs_repair that will have the greatest impact to reducing repair time is ag_stride. The optimal value of this option is dependent on the configuration of the storage. If the storage is made up of a series of concatenated disks then you can use this option to...

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