Default inode number too low in FFS nowadays?

[Daniel Kalchev]

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. :-)

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