From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 9 01:14:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16AC7106566C for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 01:14:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C62AC8FC1C for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 01:13:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 3so1824299qwe.7 for ; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:13:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CI1SJ1lVUt885P9NlDSt7ONidaFm+S8sHVq4+658FzM=; b=AxbrcAE++SK+GprGfinTmlNDUyzfueAliQCgVgywcOvosiR/Qr5fLeMB8XwCCMI4Kj 7QHbUPG41yhsZPXMR2NifuQxqiownPR0wLg7nbxvc84lsR7mbPHuV/Jk8JqEMuGxzyXg KOa/lKlGvqhl8N+m9Uzx0XGbtrk58Xn6VFJh8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=IZ9DkgK8jd1lxCnQh4sdiy4MY0XxyqoKhzXIncS4HpK53IhZ/7Iqy1Hd1NnQzvZoXv t3TddgSjFaPq//uCXeUVLzViDhJu/LkCC4fQV8x95yRODoFUGwRbHYFhxonYCsW+Vjy/ Hjf5N4x5liWhv4qSF2bbkwEi6ejDw6w8WYzzc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.94.139 with SMTP id z11mr470939qcm.6.1244510039073; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:13:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 18:13:59 -0700 Message-ID: <26face530906081813x5abd6d28i27137b76b0be41c@mail.gmail.com> From: Kelly Jones To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:14:00 -0000 What UFS-like filesystem has unlimited inodes, but is a drop-in replacement for ext3, and is fairly easy to configure? Is UFS2 no longer considered the "best" general-use filesystem? Reason I ask: I'm going to create many small (~1K) files on a 100G disk and thus need at least 100M inodes. "newfs -i" maxes out at ~52M inodes (862 groups * 60864 inodes =~ 52M inodes): # newfs -N -i 1 /dev/da1;: same results as -i 2048 /dev/da1: 102400.0MB (209715200 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 using 862 cylinder groups of 118.88MB, 7608 blks, 60864 inodes. I realize I can use "f 512 -b 4096" to get 200M+ inodes, but I'm willing to experiment w/ a new filesystem, provided it behaves mostly like UFS. Thoughts? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.