[gpfsug-discuss] default inode size

Lukas Hejtmanek xhejtman at ics.muni.cz
Wed Mar 15 13:21:40 GMT 2017


Hello,

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 01:09:07PM +0000, Luis Bolinches wrote:
>    My 2 cents. Before even thinking too much on that path I would check the
>    following
>     
>    - What the is physical size on those SSD if they are already 4K you won't
>    "save" anything

size of what?

>    - Do you use small (>3.5Kb) files? If so I would still keep 4K inodes
>    - Check if 512 can hold NSDv2 format, from top of my head it cannot but
>    pls check. If so, do you want to use a format that anyway is going to fade
>    away and lose the goodies that format brings?
>     
>    I am sure few other pros (and cons) can be put on but I would start with
>    those 3

I was thinking about 1024B inodes. Is this still not enough for NSDv2 format?

-- 
Lukáš Hejtmánek



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