Re: Configuring large XFS filesystem

["Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@xxxxxxx>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:

> You won't run out of space; xfs dynamically allocates inodes up to a
> set max percentage, default 25% of space in inodes.  However, you
> can always use xfs_growfs to increase that if necessary.
> 25% of 300G / 256byte inodes still leaves you with plenty of room
> for -lots- of files & dirs (314,572,800 if I calculated right).
OK, that was my biggest worry.

> how are you assembling the 300G?  stripe values etc might be worth
> examining.
The 300G array is an external hardware FC-to-Ultra160 array using a 
CMD controller (old and no longer repairable, but still works fine). 
I've thought about trying to deal with that, but the array is already 
so fast that I don't think I could really improve things very much.