> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 05:27:11PM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote:
>> I was involved in a discussion a while back where it was explained that
>> ext2/3 allocate a certain maximum number of inodes at format time, and
>> you cannot increase that number later.
>>
>> It was also mentioned that one or more of the journaling file systems
>> (XFS, JFS, Reiser, etc.) either dynamically allocated inodes or could
>> increase the maximum later if the pre-allocated set got used up.
>>
>> Could someone please repeat for me which filesystems have dynamic
>> maximum inode counts?
>
> XFS does dynamic inode allocation, there is no preallocated set.
> Steve also recently implemented dynamic space reclaim for ondisk
> inode clusters too, once they're no longer used. XFS puts a cap
> on the amount of space that can be used for inodes at mkfs time
> (25% iirc), and this can be adjusted later via "xfs_growfs -m".
>
> I don't know enough about the other filesystems to answer for them
> though.
>
> cheers.
>
> --
> Nathan
>
>
>
Sorry, I'd like to understand the following:
- XFS does allocate (automagically) more inode as needed by the File Systems;
or
- a explicit "xfs_growfs" command (to enlarge the FS) is required?
Thanks,
Roberto
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