> The inode numbers can easily grow past the "maximum", but once it reaches
> the maximum the growth should be stunted and controlled. The above is
> exactly the kind of behaviour you should expect: inodes freely grow until
> they hit the max number, and then the growth should slow down quite
> noticeably. Think of "max" as a soft limit rather than a hard one.
Does not look so. I ran Andreas' exploit and I got this:
mordor:~# cat /proc/sys/fs/inode-state
33754 1 1 0 0 0 0
And number growed quite fast. All this with update running and
inode_nr = 2048
linux 2.2.2-pre2 of course.
Bye,
Oleg
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