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Deprecated mount option in Linux kernel 4.15+ #273

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The mount options barrier|nobarrier has been deprecated.

This affects:

  • RHEL 8+
  • Ubuntu 18.04+
  • Any other OS using kernel 4.15 (which came out 2018-01-28)

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Similarly, the XFS file system defaults can be optimized to improve performance. We recommend setting `nobarrier`, `logbufs=8`, `logbsize=256k`, and `allocsize=2M` when using the XFS filesystem.

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Similarly, the XFS file system defaults can be optimized to improve performance. We recommend setting `logbufs=8`, `logbsize=256k`, and `allocsize=2M` when using the XFS filesystem. In addition, up to Ubuntu 17.10 and RHEL/CentOS 7.9 (and any OS using a Linux kernel before 4.15) we recommend setting `nobarrier`.

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