We have ~1.4 billion inodes and we're using about 50 million. We use lots of small files so I took our highest utilization ever and doubled it. Better safe than sorry.
We did format with an inode every 1024 bytes because we use no striping. -- Daniel Leaberry Senior Systems Administrator iArchives Inc. Andreas Dilger wrote: > For future filesystem compatibility, we are wondering if there are any > Lustre MDT filesystems in existence that have 2B or more total inodes? > > This is fairly unlikely, because it would require an MDT filesystem > that is > 8TB in size (which isn't even supported yet) and/or has been > formatted with specific options to increase the total number of inodes. > > This can be checked with "dumpe2fs -h /dev/{mdtdev} | grep 'Inode count'" > on the MDT. > > > If there are issues with privacy, please email me directly. Otherwise, > I think people would be interested to know what the larger MDT sizes > are (even if they aren't as high as 2B inodes). > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group > Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss