Re: False No space left on device error

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

ino64 is a test option, it deliberately adds a large number to
inode values so that it is possible to test that the inode handling
is 64 bit clean without buying a few Tbytes of disk (which would
have been very expensive when the code was written). It should
not be used outside of testing.

inode64 is a hack to force xfs to keep inodes down in the start of
the filesystem where the inode numbers (which are disk addresses
really) do not overflow 32 bits. This is for systems which cannot
cope with larger inodes. There are also 3rd party backup
applications which barf on large inode numbers, networker was
the one I remember.

Steve


Jan Derfinak wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
>
> > you can use the undocumented/unsupported/non-production "ino64" option to
> > force all inodes into 64-bit range, and test them on a (smaller) scratch fs.
> > I expect that it'll be fine but testing is good.
>
> Can you explain difference between ino64 and inode64 options?
> Comments in source says:
> "ino64"         /* force inodes into 64-bit range */
> "inode64"   /* inodes can be allocated anywhere */
>
> Is it possible to explain it little bit more? There is no info in xfs.txt.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jan