Thank you for your reply.
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
> In order to deal with the 32 bit limit on Linux, and with issues with
> 3rd party applications such as Legato Networker on Irix, changes
> went in recently which adjust the inode placement policy of XFS to
> restrict inodes to the part of the filesystem which keeps them within
> 32 bits, unless the inode64 mount option is used. The fix is more
> complex than that as we need to make data prefer space not suitable
> for inodes to avoid filesystems which have lots of space but cannot
> create new files.
But it seems that XFSMNT_32BITINODES flag is always set.
> The theoretical maximum for XFS without the limits imposed by the
> Linux block and vfs layers is probably on the order of 2^6x which
> is a very very big number and would probably require the output of
> several major drive vendors for a long time to construct, around 115
> million 160G drives by my calculation!
Great!
How about 64bit linux? (e.g. XFS for IA-64 linux)
--
Masano
|