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Re: limitation of inode count on x86 (32b)

To: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: limitation of inode count on x86 (32b)
From: Phy Prabab <phyprabab@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 18:39:34 -0700 (PDT)
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Thanks Nathan!

Phy
--- Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 03:50:13PM -0700, Phy Prabab
> wrote:
> > Sirs,
> > 
> > Do I understand correctly that XFS on x86 is
> limited
> > to 2^32 inodes?  I am looking at making a fairly
> large
> > XFS file server where there will probably be
> millions
> > up millions of sym-links.  Want to make sure I
> > properly size the server.
> > 
> > Thank you for your time.
> 
> All Linux filesystems are "limited" that way.  The
> size of the
> inode number in the VFS is 32 bits on i386.  See
> __kernel_ino_t,
> ino_t, and all the places where "unsigned long" is
> used directly,
> eg. the "struct inode" i_ino definition in
> linux/fs.h.
> 
> cheers.
> 
> -- 
> Nathan
> 
> 


        
                
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