[OpenAFS] Max number of files in volume?

Horst Birthelmer horst@riback.net
Thu, 13 May 2004 15:10:32 +0200


On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 02:10  PM, Mike Burns wrote:

> AFS on AIX however reserves 8% of disk space for inodes, so you need to
> restart the fileserver process and use the -m option to specify a 
> different
> percentage of space to reserve for inodes.  The fileserver man page 
> has a
> blurb about it.  We ran into this ourselves and set it to 4% and 
> didn't have
> a problem.  We could have set it even lower.
>
>
'-m' is as far as I know a feature from AIX 3.x and those servers where 
inode servers.
The up to date fileservers are namei fileservers...  am I wrong??

Horst