Re: On RAID, inode size, stripe size (was: Playing around with NFS+XFS)

[Federico Sevilla III <jijo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 at 10:36, Steve Lord wrote:
> This is not a raid5 thing, it is a filesystem size issue, once you get
> above 1 Tbyte in filesystem size then xfs inode numbers (which are
> really a disk address) can take more than 32 bits. Since lots of linux
> code, including NFS, does not cope with this, we need to change things
> in xfs so that a larger inode is used, this reduces the number of
> addressing bits required down to below 32 bits again.

So on filesystems <1TB you can safely use the default of 256 bytes?

 --> Jijo

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