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From: kurt@ibmarc.uucp (Kurt Shoens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: mkfs
Keywords: AIX mkfs
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Date: 22 Jun 89 16:02:12 GMT
References: <710@tuvie>
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In a recent append, edv-vie@tuvie (EDV Ges.m.b.H.) writes...
>If I say less than 32000 inodes, the AIX-system will
>do it, but if I say more than 32000 inodes (iE 90000)
>I will get 32000 and not one more.

AIX/RT limits filesytems to 32000 inodes, alas.  Strangely,
both AIX/370 and AIX/PS-2 do NOT limit you to 32000 inodes/fs.
That is, they have 4-byte inode numbers.

Kurt Shoens, IBM Almaden Research Center, ...!uunet!ibmarc!kurt