On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 21:45:28 -0800 un...@physics.ubc.ca (unruh) wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 21:51:26 -0600 > > Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> Food for thought: your /dev/sda7 is an EXT filesystem of 26GB with 1.7M > >> inodes. XFS would give you ~23M inodes on a 26GB filesystem. > > > > An ext[2-4] filesystem can be created with any desired number inodes by > > invoking 'mkfs.ext[2-4] -N nnn'. > > Irrelevant in this case. It is almost certainly a misconfigured > logrotate (eg filename* as the file pattern) which exponentially grows > the number of inodes. No number would be enough.Each day the number of > files double. You cannot win against an exponential.
Yes, it's irrelevant to this case - but your comment is irrelevant to my point, which was merely to counter the implication that XFS has some advantage over ext* in the matter of inodes. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131107083151.317a638f7acf1263b7ed8...@gmail.com
