Re: influencing reported free inodes?

[James Pearson <james-p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Flower wrote:
> My question is this.  Is there anything that can be done on the
> server-side to influence the free inodes/files that XFS reports?
> (Specifically, other than rebuilding the XFS partition smaller)
>
> Also a related question, has anyone ever run into this sort problem in
> the past and (if so) what did you do to work around it?
>
> The app's vendor has been notified and has logged this as a bug but they
> consider this to be a "corner-case" and don't seem to care much about
> updating their code, at least very quickly.  I've pointed out to them
> the many other apps that run on there without problems but was unable to
> successfully goad them into patching the problem.
You might want to look at:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-nfs&m=108910578914714&w=2

and the threads it refers to.

James Pearson