[Ocfs2-users] How to overcome 32000 subdirs limit

[Sunil Mushran]

Probably better if you deinstall the package. That way you'll know if
make install is missing a binary or two.

On 11/23/2010 05:10 AM, Sergey Bolbat wrote:
> Alright, I have no time to wait, so I've completed long way of building tools (it had a lot of dependencies from different libraries) and ready to install it.
> I'm going to use checkinstall to build package.
> So, do I need to uninstall my 1.4.1-1 ocfs2-tools or I can install it above?
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> Thanks again.
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> 20 ноября 2010 г. 20:41 пользователь Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com <mailto:sunil.mushran at oracle.com>> написал:
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>     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
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>     Refer to the 1.6 user's guide. It talks about enabling new features.
>
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>     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.
>>
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>>     2010/11/19 Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com <mailto:sunil.mushran at oracle.com>>
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>>         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.
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>>         You can read about this and other features in the ocfs2 1.6 user's guide on oss.oracle.com <http://oss.oracle.com>.
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>>         On Nov 18, 2010, at 9:13 PM, Sergey Bolbat <madd.korben at gmail.com <mailto:madd.korben at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>>         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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