Re: Ext3 File System "Too many files" with snort

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jul 11, 2004  16:55 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello Andreas, 
> 
> Am 2004-07-08 12:21:43, schrieb Andreas Dilger:
> 
> >If you are actually running out of inodes, then you can use "-i" or "-N"
> >to mke2fs to increase the number of inodes in a new filesystem.  Since
> >this defaults to 1 inode per 8kB of space, it seems unlikely that you
> >would run out of inodes before blocks unless you have lots of small files
> >(maildir perhaps?  even then "modern" emails usually average > 8kB in size
> >because of HTML crap, lots of headers, attachments, etc).
> 
> I have a courier-imap Server where I share all all mailinglists where 
> I am subscribed... Curently I have 5,2 Millionen Messages in the ext3.
> 
> I have already striped the messages with 
> 
> :0 fh
> | formail -f -I Received: -I Envelope-to: -I Delivered-To:  -I Return-path: \
> -I X-Spam-Checker-Version:   -I X-Spam-Status: -I X-Spam-Level: 
> 
> I have a mailsize of around 2,5 kBytes...
> 
> So I habe used 'mkfs.ext3 -b 1024 -N 8000000 ... /dev/sda..'
> 
> My question is, how many Inodes can I create on a ext3 filesystem  ?

Up to 4 billion inodes, but it depends on the size of the device.  You
can create your filesystem with e.g. "-b 1024 -i 2048" to create 1 inode
for each 2kb of space.

> Curently I am running a 3Ware Raid-5 Controller 75xx with 3 x 80 GByte.

This will give you 160GB of usable space, so 160 * 1024 * 1024 / (2 * 1024)
is 80 million, which is what you specified manually above, oh, you put
8 million unless that was a typo.

Yes, it would be good to have dynamic inode allocation for ext3, but it
hasn't been a top priority for anyone to implement it.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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