On a related note to the conversation
below - What's the impact to increasing maxdirsize on a given volume? We
have a qtree approaching the limit for its volume. Does maxdirsize
function like maxfiles/inodes?
Jeff Mery - MCSE, MCP
National Instruments
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Allow me to extol the virtues of the Net Fairy, and of all the fantastic
dorks that make the nice packets go from here to there. Amen."
TB - Penny Arcade
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Blake Golliher"
<thelastman@gmail.com> Sent by: owner-toasters@mathworks.com
Just add more with maxfiles, and ask about netapps
plan to adopt
dynamic inode allocation. Which there may not be, but one can hope.
:) We have a data set that constantly runs out of inodes, we just
keep a close eye on it, and add more inodes when needed. We've not
had an issue with mysterious loss of performance when adding inodes
using maxfiles.
hope that helps,
-Blake
On 5/22/07, Fox, Adam <Adam.Fox@netapp.com> wrote:
> It depends on why you are running out of inodes. If your dataset
> uses lots of little files, then increasing the disk space probably
> won't help much because you'll end up having a lot of space sitting
> idle.
> If there are just a few places in the data that have lots of inodes,
but
> it's the exception not the rule, then adding space will probably do
the
> trick.
>
> The only caveat with adding inodes is to add them as you need them.
> Don't
> massively over-add inodes as you'll increase some structures in the
> filesystem
> that could slow down your performance unecessarily. Also keep
in mind
> that
> once you increase the inodes in a volume, they cannot be decreased.
>
> Just some thoughts on the topic.
>
>
> -- Adam Fox
> adamfox@netapp.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Swenson [mailto:magnuss@cadence.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:38 AM
> To: toasters@mathworks.com
> Subject: running out of inodes problem
>
> Hello Toasters,
>
> Just wanted to do a quick check, what the standard practise is when
> running out of inodes on a volume.
>
> I have several flex volumes in one aggregate.
> One of the volumes only at 80% full ran out of inodes.
>
> df -i will show number of inodes used and inodes free.
>
> This is a 100G volume with 3458831 inodes.
>
> According to now.netapp.com, there are two solutions,
>
> increase inodes with the 'maxfiles' command, or add more disk space
to
> the volume.
>
> Has anybody had experience with this and which way did you go?
>