On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Adam Todorski wrote:
I have a situation where I need more than 1024*1024 inodes in a multi-terabyte UFS filesystem and cannot use ZFS but would very much like to stay with Solaris. Can I do this? Has anyone done this? If so, how did you do it? I'm prepared to have to modify the filesystem creation tools as long as I don't have to modify the kernel driver. I
See sourcecode here: http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/cmd/fs.d/ufs/mkfs/mkfs.c#165
know that the 1024*1024 limit was imposed to keep fsck from running for hours or days on a large filesystem but my hardware is fast and I would accept a long fsck anyway.
If you're hit really bad, then rather recreate. That plus backup replay would then be faster. But on the other hand, you might never have to fsck. Depends on (bad) luck, mostly ...
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