bromine@orion.cf.uci.edu (Bill J. Romine) (02/08/89)
We recently purchased a swallow5 disk for our Sequent system. When moving my users partition from a 256 MB swallow to the new swallow I came across the problem of running out of inodes. It seems that mkfs limits the number of inodes per cylinder group to 2048. The new swallow has cylinders that are about 4 times as dense as the old swallow. Mkfs also limits the number of cylinders per group to at least 16. Does anyone know the effect of changing the code to allow fewer than 16 cylinders per group or more than 2048 inodes per cylinder group? Or does anyone have a suggestion as to how to get more inodes on a partition.
cds@root.co.uk (Chris Seabrook) (02/13/89)
We have also recently added a swallow 5 to our sequent configuration. The work we are using the new disk for is somewhat indoe hungry (lots of symlinks) so I made the filesystem using: mkfs -b 4096 -f 512 -c 4 -i 2048 zd8c zdswallow5 and ended up with a better inode <-> disk block ratio than on the standard swallow. I guess -c 6 will be more what you are looking for though.