On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:37:55PM +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > On 22/08/18 18:12, Oesterlin, Robert wrote: > >Sometimes, I look at the data that's being stored in my file systems and > >just shake my head: > > > >/gpfs/<path removed>/Restricted/EventChangeLogs/deduped/working contains > >17,967,350 files (in ONE directory) > > > > That's what inode quota's are for. Set it pretty high to begin with, say one > million. That way the vast majority of users have no issues ever. Then the > troublesome few will have issues at which point you can determine why they > are storing so many files, and appropriately educate them on better ways to > do it. Finally if they really need that many files just charge them for it > :-) Having lots of files has a cost just like having lots of data has a > cost, and it's not fair for the reasonable users to subsidize them.
Yep, we set our fileset inode quota to 1 million/TB of allocated space. It seems overly generous to me but it's far better than no limit at all. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([email protected]) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
