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Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.
With lazy-counters enabled on an XFS file system, the free-space and inode counters are maintained in parts of the file system other than the superblock. This arrangement can significantly improve I/O performance for application workloads that are metadata intensive.
Lazy counters are enabled by default, but if required, you can disable them by specifying the -l lazy-count=0 option to the mkfs.xfs command.