[CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

Wed Mar 7 04:26:19 UTC 2012
Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com>

On Mar 6, 2012, at 6:59 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:

> On 03/06/12 3:51 PM, Ross Walker wrote:
>> Is there a need for inode64? Is it too late to back-out of it, or have you pickled the file system already.
> 
> as i undertsand it, you need inode64 on any XFS file system over 2TiB, 
> and ours is 74TiB.

Ah, as I understood it it was only needed if the number of inodes fills up what can be held by a 32-bit counter, the documentation is a little weak here.

-Ross