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 [email protected] http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/spectrum/scale From: "Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)" <[email protected]> To: gpfsug main discussion list <[email protected]> Date: 10/23/2015 09:05 AM Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Independent Inode Space Limit Sent by: [email protected] >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
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