20TB Storage System

Eric Anderson anderson at centtech.com
Wed Sep 3 13:30:45 PDT 2003


Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <3F564DF6.3090200 at he.iki.fi>, Petri Helenius writes:
> 
> 
>>You have any insight into the fsck memory consumption? I remember getting
>>myself saved quite a long time ago by reducing the number of inodes.
> 
> 
> I have not studied it.  I always try to avoid having more than an
> order of magnitude more inodes than I need, it also saves fsck time.
> 

So what's the appropriate way to calculate what blocksize and how many 
inodes you should use?

Eric



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