Re: Inode usage

Daniele P.
2007-04-19T13:43:37Z

On Thursday 19 April 2007 15:14, you wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:28:46AM +0200, Stein M. Hugubakken wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a lot of free inodes on my xfs-partitions and was wondering
> > about what impact this has on performance or memory?
>
> None. The number of free inodes is a made up number. ;)

That's for normal usage.
Well, David don't forget what you tell me some time ago about
xfs_repair

In terms of inode count, I generally use the rule that for every
10million inodes you need a gigabyte of RAM for repair - you needed
about 500MB for 6million inodes.

The inode count also affects xfsdump/xfsrestore operations but I don't
know the details. There was a huge improvement in performances for
partial dump with xfsprogs-2.8.16 IIRC.

Regards,
Daniele P.