[Ocfs2-users] High inodes usage

[Sunil Mushran]

That is old. It just could be a minor bug is that release. Is it causing
you any problems?


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Nicolas Michel <be.nicolas.michel at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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