[Ocfs2-users] High inodes usage

[Nicolas Michel]

Hello Sunil,

I checked the inode usage with df -i
I can't check the kernel version running on the system now because I'm not
at work but it's a SLES 10 SP2, so a pretty old kernel I suppose.

Nicolas

2013/7/3 Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at gmail.com>

> 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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Nicolas MICHEL
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