Hi, Ethan Azariah wrote on Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 04:26:05PM +0100: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2025, at 4:03 PM, Crystal Kolipe wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 03:53:37PM +0100, Ethan Azariah wrote:
>>> can ffs run out of inodes as ext2 can? >> Yes. Specifically, https://man.openbsd.org/newfs.8#i . >> But with default settings and typical use, it probably won't happen. Correct, that's called "sane defaults". If, for some reason, you have a file system with an extremely small average file size (on the order of a few kilobytes or below), it can happen, though, and that's what the -i option is for. > thanks. i might have misunderstood inodes role in hard linking. > when you make a hard link, does it use a new inode? $ ls -1i /usr/bin/{man,mandoc,apropos} /usr/sbin/makewhatis 26587 /usr/bin/apropos 26587 /usr/bin/man 26587 /usr/bin/mandoc 26587 /usr/sbin/makewhatis Looks like several directory entries point to the same inode: https://man.openbsd.org/ls.1#i This does consume some space because the directories need to store the additional file names and file name - inode associations, but it does not consume additional inodes. Yours, Ingo
