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- From: bailey@Intrepid.mcs.kent.edu (Jeff Bailey)
- Subject: Re: More inodes for Multimax System V filesystem
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.213558.24826@mcs.kent.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science Dept., Kent State Univ.
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:35:58 GMT
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- |> ibarrac@kzin.fiu.edu (Carlos A. Ibarra) writes:
- |>
- |> >I installed C-news on our Encore Multimax with 14 ns32K processors running
- |> >System V R2.4.1. It seems to run pretty fast. The nntpd also runs quite
- |> >nicely, giving us much better access times to articles than the previous
- |> >news server machine (a Sun 3/80).
- |>
- |> >However, I have found one serious flaw. I can't seem to make a filesystem
- |> >with more than 65536 inodes. We have a 400 Mb disk which gets half full and
- |> >then runs out of inodes. This is true for System V and BSD type filesystems.
- |> >Even for virtual partitions (made of more than one partition) this limit
- |> >seems to hold!
- |>
- |> >I think there must be some way of circumventing this ridiculous limitation.
- |> >Otherwise I will be forced to split the newsgroups into several partitions in
- |> >a totally artificial, inefficient and unsatisfactory way.
- |>
- |> >Does anyone know how to create a filesystem on this machine running System V
- |> >with more than 2^16 inodes.
- |>
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- I had a similar problem. I believe the limit is on the number of i-nodes
- per cylinder group. If you increase the number of cylinder groups you
- can get more i-nodes. I have a partition with about 120K i-nodes which
- we used for news for a while. This was under Umax 4.2.
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