[gpfsug-discuss] default inode size

[Stephen Ulmer]

You need 4K nodes to store encryption keys. You can also put other useful things in there, like extended attributes and (possibly) the entire file.

Are you worried about wasting space?

-- 
Stephen



> On Mar 15, 2017, at 5:50 AM, Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman at ics.muni.cz <mailto:xhejtman at ics.muni.cz>> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> does anyone know why with GPFS 4.x, there is inode size 4096B by default.
> 
> Is there any problem with, e.g., only 1024B inode size?
> 
> -- 
> Lukáš Hejtmánek
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