mkfs / lots if inodes

[Bill Webb]

> 	I'm running AIX 2.2.1 on an RT.
> 	I'd like to create a filesystem with a large number of inodes
>...
> 	Has anyone figured out a way around this one ? :-(
> tim

I remember we encountered this problem when we tried to create a
filesystem with a directory with 38,000 files in it. We eventually
ended up using NFS to access a BSD 4.3 system that allowed essentially
unlimited numbers of inodes (this may not be feasable if all you have
is one or more AIX system). It seems to me that in playing around with
mkfs that we found that you could specify a larger number of inodes by
using a prototype file (but I'm not 100% sure). It would probably be
worthwhile giving it a try. Other than that all I can suggest is using
multiple filesystems mounted to look like a single filesystem. On our news
system this would be reasonable as there are several large directories
that can be put into separate filesystems (e.g. comp, gnu, alt, rec, soc).

Bill Webb (IBM AWD Paloalto, T465-4457, (415) 855-4457).
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