Inode density for database machines - newfs -i

[Ivan Voras]

Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Ivan Voras writes:
> 
>> How long fsck takes depends on the number of used inodes, not the total
>> number. Barring a bug in UFS, you should be able to have as little
>> inodes as you want, especially if you know for sure what number to
>> expect.
> 
> "man tuning" says otherwise.

As Rick already clarified, this is a side-effect of UFS2. Actually, fsck
for UFS2 will need to check all "initialized" inodes, e.g. if you had a
file, then deleted it, that inode will still need to be checked, but
never-initialized nodes won't.

tuning(7) probably wasn't updated.


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