From: David Fox (dfox@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us)
Date: 06/21/93


From: dfox@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us (David Fox)
Subject: Re: VFS no free Inodes message.... what?
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 05:13:01 GMT

Mike Horwath (root@jacobs.jacobs.mn.org) wrote:
: Mark Woodward (woodward@Newbridge.COM) wrote:

: : Well I woke up to a good one this morning.... My machine had a few
: : "VFS no free Inodes contact Linus"

[description of problem elided]

: : Thanks for a great OS.

Amen to that. :)

: If it is ext2fs, do this:

: Make a backup of that filesystem
: remake filesystem, using different inode per block, ie:
: mke2fs -i 3072 /dev/wherever blockcount one inode for every 3K
: mke2fs -i 2048 /dev/wherever blockcount one inode for every 2K

: This will up your inodes by 25% and 50% respectfully.

Could you or others expound on the pros and cons of doing this? (One
obvious pro is that you get more inodes).

I know there are other configurable options in e2fs, but I don't yet
have a feel on how they affect performance. (Specifically, issues like
clusters per block.)

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