From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 17:05:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C50D16A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:05:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from beelzebubba.sysabend.org (alcatraz.inna.net [209.201.74.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A55243D1F for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:05:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from xyzzy@moo.sysabend.org) Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [66.111.41.70]) by beelzebubba.sysabend.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A7D314E9A; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 20:05:29 -0500 (EST) Received: (nullmailer pid 81639 invoked by uid 14); Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:05:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 17:05:14 -0800 From: Tom Arnold To: Doug White Message-ID: <20040110010514.GA79577@moo.sysabend.org> References: <20040108002627.GH22041@moo.sysabend.org> <20040109165514.X24587@carver.gumbysoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040109165514.X24587@carver.gumbysoft.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The Sysabend Dump X-Operating-System: CPM2.2 cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large filesystems with massive inodes on BSD5.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: xyzzy@sysabend.org List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 01:05:21 -0000 On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 04:56:39PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > Unless you're going to fill the filesystem with 512 byte files, you > probably have the sizes set too low. You're probably OK with the default > of 4096 bytes/inode. Its actually gonna be filled with gzipped spam which we find seems to be under 1k. 512bytes is probably too small, but even doubling the fragment and inode size to 1024 still leaves me with a billion inodes... > This is the right spot. Interesting that fsck fell over creating the > snapshot due to E2BIG. Yeah. Interesting is a word for it. :-) I dont know how much longer I can keep this setup around if this might be a bug worth investigating I'd like to be able to help. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Tom Arnold - When I was small, I was in love, - - Sysabend - In love with everything. - - CareTaker - And now there's only you... - -------------- -- Thomas Dolby, "Cloudburst At Shingle Street" -