Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!bywater!arnor!arnor!marc From: marc@watson.ibm.com (Marc Auslander) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Need more inodes Message-ID: Date: 12 Apr 91 13:08:53 GMT References: <1991Apr11.064139.16221@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> <6585@awdprime.UUCP> Sender: news@watson.ibm.com (NNTP News Poster) Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York Lines: 9 In-Reply-To: jerry@heyman.austin.ibm.com's message of 11 Apr 91 15:23:32 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: marc I believe that the AIXV3 jfs uses the BSD inode scheme, in which I fixed percentage of the file system space is preallocated to inodes. When you grow the file system you get more inodes as well. It appears, from looking at several file systems, that the constant is one inode for each 4k disk block in the file system. -- Marc Auslander