Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

[Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>]

On 12/12/11 12:15, Daniel Troeder wrote:
>Hello :)
>
>I have an ext4-filesystem that contains /usr/src, the /usr/portage and
>/var/cache/edb. It previously also contained /var/db/pkg, but I had to
>move that some weeks ago, because the fs was "full". Now it's "full"
>again, though it has free blocks. But no inodes are left:
>
>$ fsck -vf /dev/sda5
>[..]
>  655360 inodes used (100.00%)
>[..]
>
>$ find /gentoo -xdev | wc -l
>655338
>
>That's really disappointing. I was using reiser3fs and XFS before, and
>they didn't have that kind of limitation... Uhm... not meant as a rant -
>I like ext4 - that's why I'm moving (almost?) everything to it...
>
>Is there any way to raise the number of inodes without using
>$ mkfs.ext4 -N BIGNUM
>
>Thank you,
>Daniel

That is scary. I just install new HD with 2TB capacity and ext4 that is 2% full and:
$ find /home/joseph/ -xdev | wc -l 
shows: 169977  that is 26% full.

So will run out of inodes before I run out of hard disk space :-/ that is not good.
If other filesystems don't have these kind of limitation I'll be switching.

-- 
Joseph