For this recipe, we want a formatted and active XFS filesystem. Follow the recipe in Formatting an XFS filesystem before continuing. It may also be a good idea to set up a dummy database where you have mounted XFS. This way, you can run a pgbench test to create a lot of database write activity so that there is a small amount of data fragmentation. This is not required to follow along with this recipe.
Getting ready
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