> On Apr 1, 2020, at 10:07 AM, Mohr Jr, Richard Frank <rm...@utk.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 1, 2020, at 3:55 AM, 肖正刚 <guru.nov...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> For  " the recent lustre versions use a 1KB inode size by default and the 
>> default format options create 1 inodes for every 2.5 KB of MDT space" :
>> I checked the inode size is 1KB and  in my online systems,  as you said , 
>> about 40~41% of mdt disk space consumed by inodes. 
>> but from the manual I found the default "inode ratio" is 2K, so where the 
>> additional 0.5KB comes from ?
>> 
> 
> I was basing this on info I found in this email thread:
> 
> http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-discuss-lustre.org/2018-February/015302.html
> 
> I think the 2K/inode ratio listed in the manual may be incorrect (or perhaps 
> someone can point out my mistake).

Looking at the lustre source (utils/libmount_utils_ldiskfs.c), the default 
behavior is determined by this line:

                bytes_per_inode = inode_size + 1536

So the default bytes per inode is 1K (inode size) + 1.5K = 2.5K

—
Rick Mohr
Senior HPC System Administrator
Joint Institute for Computational Sciences
University of Tennessee




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