Default inode number too low in FFS nowadays?

[Alexander Best]

On Wed Nov  2 11, Daniel Kalchev wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02.11.11 15:13, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 12:57:33PM +0100, Borja Marcos wrote:
> >>Today I?ve come across an issue long ago forgotten :) Running out of 
> >>i-nodes.
> >[...]
> >
> >There's a reason /usr on FreeBSD defaults to "all the remaining space on
> >the disk" if you pick the defaults/auto.  Surprise.  :-)
> >
> >The summarised version is:
> >
> >1. You have control over this yourself: newfs(8) -i flag.  You can even
> >input this flag during sysinstall when building a new system.
> >
> >[...]
> 
> Just for the completeness of it, one would use ZFS and be done with this 
> issue. :-)

'boot -s && fsck_ufs -r /dev/ufs/whatever' might also be helpful.

cheers.
alex

> 
> That would be point 0. in my personal list of suggestions. All the rest 
> would be "if you have good reason to not use ZFS".
> 
> Daniel