macphed%DVINCI.USask.CA@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (01/24/89)
Hello; We are having a minor problem here with in using mkfs and newfs to create a partition with greater than the default number of inodes. The hardware we're running is a SUN 4/280 with Xylogics 450/451 controllers and Hitachi 890Meg disks. The operating system is SUNOS 3.2L. Neither mkfs nor newfs complains on the invocation, but the new partition only has a limited number of inodes. We have tried to change other parameters such as block and frag size, just in case they also had to be changed, but to no avail. (Mkfs DOES complain if the frag size is too small for a given block size.) The desired parameters are: Partition size: 435 cylinders Block size: 8192 Frag size: 1024 Bytes/inode: 1024 Result is (from df, so size doesn't include "overflow"): Size: 210954 kbytes inodes: 57344 The thing that I notice is that the number of inodes per cylinder group does not vary. Could this be the limitation I'm encountering? (The rate is 2048 inodes/cyl.grp. Mkfs will not allow me less than 16 cylinders per group. In this case, it is 435/16 = 27.1875 = 28 groups 28 * 1024 = 57344 inodes.) All of this is in seeming contradiction to the documentation. All help will be gratefully accepted. As this is an unusual configuration, please email responses. A summary will be posted when an answer is found. Ian MacPhedran University of Saskatchewan Engineering Computing Centre macphedran@sask.usask.ca InterNet macphedr@sask.bitnet BITnet/NetNorth macphed@dvinci.uucp UUCP ( ...!alberta!dvinci!macphed )