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[David J. Kleikamp]

In article <731 at rufus.UUCP> drake at drake.almaden.ibm.com writes:
>This isn't an issue.  When a filesystem is created (or later expanded),
>the number of inodes is set to the number of 4K blocks in the filesystem.
>In other words, except in cases where there are zero length files in the
>filesystem, it's impossible to run out of inodes.

Symbolic links are often contained within the inode.  If you have a
filesystem containing a large number of symbolic links you may very well
run out of inodes.

>It's true that the number is "fixed", but only in that you can't change it.
>But the default is always "big enough".

Usually big enough.

>Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
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