[Ocfs2-users] High inodes usage

Sunil Mushran sunil.mushran at gmail.com
Wed Jul 3 11:48:17 PDT 2013


Hoe did you figure this out? Also, which version of the kernel are you
using?


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Nicolas Michel
<be.nicolas.michel at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
> I'm using OCFS2 for a shared storage (on SAN). I just saw that the inode
> usage is really high although these filesystems are used for Oracle DATA
> storage. So there are really a few big files.
>
> I don't understand why the inode usage is so high with such few big files
> (As an example : one of the filesystem have 16 files and directories but
> the ~26 million of inodes are almost used!)
>
> My questions :
> - is the inode usage can be a problem in such a situation
> - if it is : how can I reduce their number used? Or increase the pool of
> available inodes?
> - why so many inodes are used with such a few files? I was sure that there
> were traditionaly one inode used for one file or one directory.
>
> --
> Nicolas MICHEL
>
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