Re: rfc: kill ino64 mount option

Mark Goodwin
2008-07-01T14:12:39Z

Christoph Litauer wrote:
> Mark Goodwin schrieb:
> ..
>> We have a design proposal known as "inode32+" that essentially removes
>> the direct mapping between inode number and disk offset. This will
>> provide all the layout and performance benefits of ino64 without the
>> interop issues. Until inode32+ is available, we need to keep ino64.
>
> Hi,
>
> as I have massive performance problems using xfs with millions of
> inodes, I am very interested in this "incode32+".

can you please post some details of the problems you're seeing?

> My server is a 32 bit machine, so I am not able to use inode64.
> Is it available?

inode32+ is only a design at the moment. An implementation is several
months away. Until then, you'll have to update your server to 64bit.

Thanks
-- Mark