[Ocfs2-users] How to overcome 32000 subdirs limit

[Sunil Mushran]

Whether or not to hand build is your choice. The resulting binaries should
be the same. You could also ping the maintainer and see if he needs any 
help.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598014

Refer to the 1.6 user's guide. It talks about enabling new features.

On 11/20/2010 04:38 AM, Sergey Bolbat wrote:
> Thank you for the answer.
> I've updated kernel to .32 and now it's time to install OCFS2 tools 
> 1.6.3.
> I've downloaded this source: 
> http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools/dist/files/source/v1.6/ocfs2-tools-1.6.3.tar.gz
> What do you say about that? It should be better to wait until ocfs2 
> tools 1.6.3 for Debian will appear (there is only 1.4.1-1 for Debian: 
> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/ocfs2-tools) or it should be better 
> to compile it from the source?
> And by the way, when I'll install 1.6.3, should I update any options 
> for my storage FS for indexed dirs to work?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> 2010/11/19 Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com 
> <mailto:sunil.mushran at oracle.com>>
>
>     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.
>
>     You can read about this and other features in the ocfs2 1.6 user's
>     guide on oss.oracle.com <http://oss.oracle.com>.
>
>
>     On Nov 18, 2010, at 9:13 PM, Sergey Bolbat <madd.korben at gmail.com
>     <mailto:madd.korben at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>>     Hi.
>>     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.
>>     This storage is connected to two servers which use data, stored
>>     on the storage. So I'm using OCFS2 on these two nodes.
>>     Today, after long time of successfull work with it, I've found
>>     that it has a limit of 32000 subdirs.
>>     The trouble is I have more than 32000 subdirs and amount of
>>     subdirs will only increase.
>>
>>     Is there a way to overcome this limit? I've found this topic:
>>     http://www.mail-archive.com/ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com/msg03151.html
>>     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.
>>     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.
>>     My OS is Debian Lenny, 2.6.26 kernel (both of servers).
>>     OCFS2 Tools version is 1.4.1.
>>
>>     Thanks.
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>
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