Still Waiting for Inode fixes, ZZZZZZZZ
Conor P. Cahill
cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Thu Dec 7 23:54:28 AEST 1989
In article <12043 at cbnews.ATT.COM>, mjs at cbnews.ATT.COM (martin.j.shannon) writes:
> In article <1989Dec6.023924.1293 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
> >All you have to do is specify the number of inodes that you require
> >on the mkfs command line.
>
> Yes, this is true.
>
> > mkfs /dev/rdsk/0s4 90000:90000
>
> And that's the right syntax, but....
>
> >Creates a 90,000 block file system with 90,000 inodes.
>
> Except that inode numbers are stored in unsigned shorts, so you can't
Yes, yes, yes I know that inode numbers are limited to 16 bits. I was
only giving an example of how to specify the number of inodes & the thought
of the limit never crossed my mind.
Apologies to the entire net community.
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