----- Original Message ----- | 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 I've had to use inode64 on far smaller file systems (15TB) due to inode counts (many files) and not file system size. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life but as by the obstacles they have overcome. - Booker T. Washington