<html><body><p>GPFS limits the max inodes based on metadata space. Add more metadata space and you should be able to add more inodes.<br><br><br>Scott Fadden<br>Spectrum Scale - Technical Marketing <br>Phone: (503) 880-5833 <br>sfadden@us.ibm.com<br><a href="http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/spectrum/scale">http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/spectrum/scale</a><br><br><img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=09BBF474DFD61C5A8f9e8a93df938690918c09B@" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for "Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)" ---10/23/2015 09:05:24 AM--->When creating an ind"><font color="#424282">"Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)" ---10/23/2015 09:05:24 AM--->When creating an independent inode space, I see the valid range for the >number of inodes is betwee</font><br><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">From: </font><font size="2">"Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)" <S.J.Thompson@bham.ac.uk></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">To: </font><font size="2">gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@gpfsug.org></font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Date: </font><font size="2">10/23/2015 09:05 AM</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Subject: </font><font size="2">Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Independent Inode Space Limit</font><br><font size="2" color="#5F5F5F">Sent by: </font><font size="2">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</font><br><hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "><br><br><br><tt><br>>When creating an independent inode space, I see the valid range for the<br>>number of inodes is between 1024 and 4294967294.<br>><br>>Is the ~4.2billion upper limit something that can be increased in the<br>>future?<br>><br>>I also see that the first 1024 inodes are immediately allocated upon<br>>creation. I assume these are allocated to internal data structures and<br>>are a copy of a subset of the first 4038 inodes allocated for new file<br>>systems? It would be useful to know if these internal structures are<br>>fixed for independent filesets and if they are not, what factors<br>>determine their layout (for performance purposes).<br><br>Anyone have any thoughts on this? Anyone from IBM know?<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Simon<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org<br></tt><tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</a></tt><tt><br><br></tt><br><br><BR>
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