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Re: %inodes question

To: "Linda A. Walsh" <law@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: %inodes question
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:20:51 -0600
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Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> Does this really matter much anymore?  It defaults to 25%, but
> on a 1T disk, that's 250G "reserved"(?) for inodes?  Even 1%
> still gives you 10G of inodes.

Not any more.  xfsprogs 2.9.5 will put it at 5% for a 1T fs.

And it's not reserved per se; it's just the maximum.  Inodes are
allocated dynamically up to that point.

-Eric


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