Okay, so the maximum number of inodes is 95% of the true (not usable) size of a volume divided by four.
And if you're daring enough to type this into your filer, it will tell you that anyway:
usvasvfile-001> maxfiles inquisition 50000000000000000 Max inode count cannot exceed 201249946
Now here's the problem. I just passed this information on to the developers who wrote the program that uses up this exceedingly ridiculous number of inodes, and they tell me that they are going to start using them up even faster than in the past, and we may run out within six months, and is there anything we can do to get more inodes?
I suggested they re-write their program to not generate tens of thousands of directories every day, but I don't know how well that will fly.
Can anyone think of a way to get more inodes? NetApp folks, any hope a RFE for a higher inode limit would go through?
Thanks, Tom
As our developer says:
-----Original Message----- From: Joseph Manak Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 1:56 PM To: Tom "Mad Dog" Yergeau Subject: RE:
We will endeavor to pursue an inode conservation program.... However it is not obvious how to do this w/o rewriting all of our reporting software... - J