Re: Wrong calculation of space remaining on a 32 bit system.

[Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 11:24:31PM +0100, François Valenduc wrote:
> 
> How can I know if I ran out of inodes ? I already tried 128 and 256
> inode sizes but the problem occurs in both cases. 

By using the command "df -i".  It will list the number of inodes that
are in use.

The tuning parameters for mke2fs is -i (the inode ratio), or -N
(number of inodes).  The number of inodes is normally calculated as a
ratio to the disk size.  The normal inode ratio is 16384, which allows
for an average inode size of 16k.  If you have a huge number of small
files, or small directories, or a huge number of symbolic links or
device nodes in the filesystem, you can run out of inodes.  You can
change this either by specifying a a smaller inode ratio, or by
explicitly specifying the number of inodes you want created using the
-N option.

> As I said in my bug
> report, I found a patch dated from november 2007 which seems to adress
> the problem (see
> http://osdir.com/ml/file-systems.ext4/2007-11/msg00200.htm).  Off course,
> I can't apply it any more now.

You can't apply it because it's already been applied; it's been in
mainline for quite a while.

>  But it seems this kind of problem still
> exists. I have no problem to use ext4 on a 64 bit systems with logical
> volumes having approximately the same size.

That seems very strange.  Maybe you have a different version of
mke2fs, or a different mke2fs.conf file?  (The default inode size can
be controlled by the mke2fs.conf file.)

Can you send the output of "dumpe2fs -h" on a filesystem where you are
having this problem, and on a filesystem from the 64-bit system where
it is working correctly?

					- Ted
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