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From: dcm@codesmith.austin.ibm.com (Craig Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Need more inodes
Keywords: inodes, journaled filesystems, jfs
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Date: 11 Apr 91 20:03:17 GMT
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In article <6585@awdprime.UUCP> jerry@heyman.austin.ibm.com (Jerry Heyman) writes:
>In article <1991Apr11.064139.16221@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> wolf@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) writes:
>|>I have a jfs (created with SMIT) that has little inodes on it (less than 10k)
>|>and I'd like to have much more. Is there a way do do it dynamically, is jfs
>|>the bad choice (info exploer says that inodes can't be specifies on jfs).
>|>
>
>If I remember correctly, the number of inodes grows dynamically as need be.
>You start off with a small allocation and then the jfs allocates them as
>need be.



	Jerry, I think you're remembering "the good ole days".... :-)

	The number of inodes is, I believe, always ~3% of the size of
	the filesystem.  You can only get more inodes by extending.


		Craig
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