GPFS limits the max inodes based on metadata space. Add more metadata space and you should be able to add more inodes. Scott Fadden Spectrum Scale - Technical Marketing Phone: (503) 880-5833 sfadden at us.ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/spectrum/scale From: "Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)" <S.J.Thompson at bham.ac.uk> To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org> Date: 10/23/2015 09:05 AM Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Independent Inode Space Limit Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org >When creating an independent inode space, I see the valid range for the >number of inodes is between 1024 and 4294967294. > >Is the ~4.2billion upper limit something that can be increased in the >future? > >I also see that the first 1024 inodes are immediately allocated upon >creation. I assume these are allocated to internal data structures and >are a copy of a subset of the first 4038 inodes allocated for new file >systems? It would be useful to know if these internal structures are >fixed for independent filesets and if they are not, what factors >determine their layout (for performance purposes). Anyone have any thoughts on this? Anyone from IBM know? Thanks Simon _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20151023/7357bf43/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: graycol.gif Type: image/gif Size: 105 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20151023/7357bf43/attachment.gif>
