Re: Allocating inodes from a single block

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:11:50AM -0700, Michael Nishimoto wrote:

> Filesystem free space becomes fragmented over time.  It's possible
> for total free space to be a decent size and still not have a chunk
> large enough to allocate new inodes.

by default there is a restriction that indoes shouldn't consume more
that 25% of the total space

see the mkfs.xfs man-page for details, search for 'maxpct'

for existing filesystems you can use xfs_db to rewrite this value