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Re: XFS Inode Size question.

To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS Inode Size question.
From: Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 22 Jan 2002 15:03:30 -0600
Cc: Nathan Straz <nstraz@xxxxxxx>, Linux XFS List <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Does this mean then that the "inode_sz" measurement shown is the amount
of references or some such thing in memory? If so, it never seems to
decrease. I don't notice a whole lot of memory in use though, even now.
I've not rebooted the machine for a while either. 

On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 14:53, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 14:49, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > That's what it looked like to me as well, but df -i still shows a
> decent
> > percentage of inodes free. That's what I'm getting wrapped around
> right
> > now. I wasn't sure if it was relating to how many inodes are/were
> used,
> > or if data extending to a certain number of blocks was making the
> other
> > inodes unuseable. I've never heard of that happening, but I was
> curious
> > just the same. 
> 
> I am pretty sure these numbers refer to in memory inode pools, not to
> on disk inode availability. Besides which when xfs reports how many
> inodes are free, it is reporting how many inodes could be created in
> the filesystem - which at 256 bytes per inode is usually a lot.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
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> 
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