Re: rfc: kill ino64 mount option

[Christoph Litauer <litauer@uni-koblenz.de>]

Mark Goodwin schrieb:
> 
> 
> 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?

Please see thread "Performance problems with millions of inodes". If you 
don't have it anymore, I can send it to you.

> 
>> 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.

This is, sadly, not an option at the moment ...

-- 
Regards
Christoph
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