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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 22:28:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Raul Zighelboim <mango@staff.communique.net>
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On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Raul Zighelboim wrote:

> Hello there;  What option on the kernel config file would increase the
> number of inodes ?

Inodes is a filesystem-dependent number, not a kernel number.  You have to
newfs the filesystem with the -i parameter.  See newfs(8).

> sysctl shows: kern.maxvnodes = 19061; and I would like to set it to
> twice that number.

Those are vnodes, memory handles as it were, not inodes, filesystem index
nodes.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major