<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Yes, indexed dirs removes this limit. For that you'll need to upgrade the kernel/fs and the tools. Best if the kernel is .32 or higher. The tools should be 1.6.x. Debian has a drop of 1.6.3 tools. Check if they have built it. </div><div><br></div><div>You can read about this and other features in the ocfs2 1.6 user's guide on <a href="http://oss.oracle.com">oss.oracle.com</a>. <br><br>On Nov 18, 2010, at 9:13 PM, Sergey Bolbat <<a href="mailto:madd.korben@gmail.com">madd.korben@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi.<br>I have a system storage HP MSA 2012 with 12 drives in it: 8
drives are 2 Tb each and 4 are 1 Tb each. All of them are in array RAID
1+0. <br>This storage is connected to two servers which use data, stored on the storage. So I'm using OCFS2 on these two nodes. <br>
Today, after long time of successfull work with it, I've found that it has a limit of 32000 subdirs. <br>The trouble is I have more than 32000 subdirs and amount of subdirs will only increase. <br><br>Is there a way to overcome this limit? I've found this topic: <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com/msg03151.html" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com/msg03151.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com/msg03151.html</a></a> which says that there is an option named "indexed directories" and it can help, but I didn't find the way to turn it on.<br>
Could you please advice me some solution, by which I could update OCFS2 settings and not to loose all of my data on the drives.<br>My OS is Debian Lenny, 2.6.26 kernel (both of servers).<br>OCFS2 Tools version is 1.4.1.<br>
<br>Thanks.
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