From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 15 22:25:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35FF916A4CE for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 22:25:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C65BF43D1F for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 22:25:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7F77835C30; Sun, 16 May 2004 02:25:37 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EABF35C2E for ; Sun, 16 May 2004 02:25:37 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 02:25:37 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040516022353.V37455@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: How do inodes work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 05:25:38 -0000 I'm fsck'ng a drive right now, and right now its up to: ZERO LENGTH DIR I=8913556 OWNER=root MODE=40755 SIZE=0 MTIME=May 10 18:36 2004 CLEAR? yes but according to df -i: # df -i /dev/da0s1h Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/da0s1h 119837208 101467120 8783112 92% 7460715 7587989 50% so I take there are 'gaps' in the inode list? it doesn't re-use freed ones but keeps climbing until maybe it rolls around or something? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664