After deleting a large number of files on a nearly full XFS filesystem, file creation slows down on Red Hat Storage Server 2.0

Solution Verified - Updated 2015-03-02T13:53:10+00:00 -

Issue

XFS became slow after 1TB of data (out of 4TB) was deleted. Fragmentation was suspected as the cause and was checked, but the fragmentation percentage of the filesystem turned out to be very small.

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