[Ocfs2-users] How to overcome 32000 subdirs limit

[Sunil Mushran]

Not any. But yes, the number of subdirs allowed in a dir should
now be close to 4 billion.

On 11/24/2010 08:11 PM, Sergey Bolbat wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>>>         <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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