From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 27 11: 6:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2721540C for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:06:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com by europe.std.com (STD1.2/BZS-8-1.0) id OAA06302; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:06:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by world.std.com (TheWorld/Spike-2.0) id AA17237; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:06:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:06:09 -0400 Message-Id: <199907271806.AA17237@world.std.com> From: Lowell Gilbert To: ChrisMic@clientlogic.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105AD1@site2s1> (message from Christopher Michaels on Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:05:34 -0400) Subject: Re: inodes? (RE: #make problem) References: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105AD1@site2s1> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: Christopher Michaels >Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 10:05:34 -0400 > >Ok, I read the newfs man page and answered my own question. Now comes my >next question. If it is such a problem that people run out of inodes, why >is the default "so low" (so to speak, since it seems unreachably high for >me)? Or are people who are short on inodes the exception to the rule? Whether the default is high or low depends on how you use your disk. If you have a lot of small files, you need more inodes for a given amount of space than if you mostly have large files. The default is, in fact, tending to err on the conservative side, as you correctly suggest. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message