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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: cy6erGn0m <cy6ergn0m@gmail.com>
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: No space left on device after many files creation
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:34:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC48EF7.5030702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC410AB.1030607@gmail.com>

On 04/13/2010 01:35 AM, cy6erGn0m wrote:

> I know that filesystems is not targeted for this usecase, but inodes
> limit looks strange.. why they are can't be allocated dinamically? Can I

ext2/3/4 don't allocate dynamically; there was some talk of trying to
find a way to do this but it's not really very high on the list at all.

xfs does do this, not sure about other filesystems.

> enlarge this limit on the fly?

No, but since you know your usecase, you can change it at mkfs time to
match what you need.

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-13 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-12 21:20 No space left on device after many files creation cy6erGn0m
2010-04-12 21:28 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-04-12 21:57   ` cy6erGn0m
2010-04-12 22:00     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-04-12 22:44       ` tytso
2010-04-13  6:35         ` cy6erGn0m
2010-04-13 15:34           ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2010-04-15 15:14           ` Andi Kleen

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