[Ocfs2-users] High inodes usage

[Nicolas Michel]

I don't know if it's the root cause of my problems or if it causes any
problem at all. But I have some stability issues on the cluster so I'm
investigating anything that could be suspect. My question is : is it a
normal behavior to get inode usage with df -i showing high percentage like
98, 99 or 100%? (a touch on the filesystem with 100% inode usage still
create a file so I suppose it is not causing any problem but I found it
weird).

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

> 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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Nicolas MICHEL
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