[Ocfs2-users] How to overcome 32000 subdirs limit

[Sergey Bolbat]

So, I've done it.
I was unable to deinstall 1.4.1-1, but "checkinstall" successfully upgraded
software for me to 1.6.3-1.
Then, I've run
tunefs.ocfs2 --fs-features=indexed-dirs /dev/sda1
And now I have my volumes with indexed dirs enabled. Can I forget about any
limitations now?

P.S. By the way. For those, who will install OCFS2-tools on Debian Lenny,
like me, from the sources, here's the complete list of software you need to
have installed to build it:
gcc
make
python-dev
python-gtk2
pkg-config
e2fslibs-dev
uuid-dev
libncurses5-dev
libreadline-dev
libglib2.0-dev

24 ноября 2010 г. 0:25 пользователь Sunil Mushran
<sunil.mushran at oracle.com>написал:

>  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?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> 20 ноября 2010 г. 20:41 пользователь Sunil Mushran <
> sunil.mushran at oracle.com> написал:
>
>>  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>
>>
>>>  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.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 18, 2010, at 9:13 PM, Sergey Bolbat <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.htmlwhich 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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