Very cool :-)
Thanks,
Quentin
--- Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 12:55, Q A wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am not on the list so, please :-) reply to all
> so
> > that I may learn from you all.
> >
> > I think I just saw an ext2 system run out of
> inodes.
> > I have a large (about 280GB) system I will be
> bringing
> > on line soon with XFS. It will be a source
> repository
> > system. I know once the file system is built you
> can
> > not re-define the number of inodes. For this
> reason,
> > the size of the system, and the large number of
> files
> > that will be created on this system I would like
> to
> > plan.
> >
> > Is there a formula for determining the number of
> > inodes a system should have based on use, size, fs
> > type?
> >
> > Thanks for all of your help,
> >
> > Quentin Arce
>
> For XFS this is wrong. XFS allocates inodes
> dynamically as you need
> them, there is no mkfs imposed limit. By default 25%
> of the filesystem
> is allowed to be allocated as inodes, you can change
> this limit at
> mkfs time, or you can change it later with
> xfs_growfs. This space
> can be consumed as data and other things too, it is
> not 25% which can
> only be inodes.
>
> Note that with defaul sizes this allows for 1
> million inodes per Gbyte
> of filesystem space - default size inodes take 256
> bytes each. So unless
> you expect more that 280 million files in your
> filesystem you do not
> need to change anything.
>
> Steve
>
>
> --
>
> Steve Lord
> voice: +1-651-683-3511
> Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software
> email: lord@xxxxxxx
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