Re: XFS and inodes (was: Recommendation on stable Reiserfs+NFS setup)

[Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>]

hi,

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:32:17PM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> Martin,
> (cc XFS Mailing List)
> 
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 at 09:11, Martin Apel wrote:
> > There's one drawback using XFS instead of ReiserFS. You have to fix
> > the number of available i-nodes at FS-creation time. A few times in

No, I'm pretty sure you can increase this value while the filesystem
is mounted - see the -m option to xfs_growfs.

> > the past I had too few i-nodes on a filesystem which was otherwise
> > still not full, so I had to copy all data somewhere else, reformat,
> > and copy back. This is something I would like to avoid.

I guess its too late now, but you almost certainly didn't need to do
that.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan