Re: xfs filesystems greater than 1 TB with inode size = 256?

[Stephan L Jansen <jansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Steve Lord's response answered my question but for completeness
here's the URL to the message I was referring to:

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/linux-xfs/2003-10/msg00152.htm

On Dec 23, 2003, at 12:35 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Stephan L Jansen wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Back in October Steve Lord said in a post to this group to make sure
> > and use
>
> Hm, October of which year?
>
> > "-i size=512" when making a xfs filesystem > 1 TB.  I have four
> > filesystems
> > larger than  1 TB that were created without using this switch.  Should
> > I be
> > worried?  Is this a performance issue or is there a  possibility for
> > data
> > corruption?   Thanks.
>
> He was probably referring to problems with inode numbers > 64 bits,
> which could be alleviated by making the inode size greater, IIRC.
> The Linux XFS code has been restricting inode numbers by other means
> for quite some time now, so as long as you don't have ancient code
> you're probably fine.
>
> Dredge up that post again, if it was from this year please post
> the URL and I'll take a look, maybe Steve was talking about another
> issue that I'm not remembering at the moment...
>
> -Eric


------- Stephan