Not enough inodes on a NEC D2363 (892 mbyte)

bugs at shire.cs.psu.edu bugs at shire.cs.psu.edu
Fri Aug 4 10:14:10 AEST 1989


Serial Number:  922E0914
Machine Type:   Sun 4/280
O/S Version:    SunOS 4.0.3
Organization:   Computer Science Department, The Pennsylvania State University
                333 Whitmore Laboratory, University Park, PA   16802
Phone Number:   +1 814 865 9723

Description:
	On our shiny new Sun 4/280, we have three 892 mbyte disks.
	Due to limitations in the kernel (specifically, MAXIPG==2048),
	a 823 mbyte partition can have at most 119000 inodes, which
	comes to about 6.25 kbytes per file.

	If your average filesize is less than 6.25 kbytes, you will
	run out of inodes before disk space.

Repeat-By:
	Run Usenet news on an average size partition.
	Run out of inodes.



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