Re: mkfs.ext4: high default -i value undocumented

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> writes:

> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 
>> Creating an ext4 filesystem on a 4 GB image file (to be loop-mounted 
>> later) gives me 256K inodes. Choosing -i 4096 instead gives 1M, which 
>> would mean the default for -i is 16384. 
>
> That's right, look in /etc/mke2fs.conf:
>
> [defaults]
>         base_features =
> sparse_super,filetype,resize_inode,dir_index,ext_attr
>         blocksize = 4096
>         inode_size = 256
>         inode_ratio = 16384
>
>> Besides me finding 16384 a 
>> little unreasonable (XFS offers 2M inodes by default), 
>
> XFS is a totally different beast, because it dynamically allocates
> inodes.  It doesn't really offer *anything* by default.
>
> Which part of a 16384-data-bytes-to-inode-count ratio do you find
> unreasonable?  Do you find it unreasonably high, or unreasonably low?

Too high for 4G, to low for 6 TiB.

MfG
        Goswin