Q. How do I make the default web folder /var/www/ capable of holding
millions of files (say 50GB worth of small 2kb-12kb files) so that I
won't get inode issues ?
The problem is that my server has the default disk layout as I didn't
expect to have millions of files (I though they would be stored in the
DB). When I started the app it generated all the files and I got out of
space warnings. I tried moving the folder containing the files and
making a symlink back but that didn't work because nginx is in a chroot.
The two option I think I have are.
1. Reinstall the OS and make a dedicated /var/www partition but how I
increase the inode limit I have no idea.
2. Make a new partition, format it, copy the files from the original
partition and swap them around and restart nginx. ( Do i run newfs with
some option to make more inodes ?)
Thanks
Keith.
