[gpfsug-discuss] Independent Inode Space Limit

[Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)]

>When creating an independent inode space, I see the valid range for the
>number of inodes is between 1024 and 4294967294.
>
>Is the ~4.2billion upper limit something that can be increased in the
>future?
>
>I also see that the first 1024 inodes are immediately allocated upon
>creation. I assume these are allocated to internal data structures and
>are a copy of a subset of the first 4038 inodes allocated for new file
>systems? It would be useful to know if these internal structures are
>fixed for independent filesets and if they are not, what factors
>determine their layout (for performance purposes).

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Anyone from IBM know?

Thanks

Simon