topic how maxfiles is calculate ? in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/how-maxfiles-is-calculate/m-p/37536#M8938 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>maxfiles define the number of inodes in a volume. </P><P>I create a 2TB volume : vol create vol_test 2TB -&gt; the volume size is : 209715200Kb</P><P>If a understand how it works, by default, there is a inode every 32KB ; I should have, 6553600 inodes for my volume (maybe less with 5% reserve), but the maxfiles command shows : "Volume voltest: maximum number of files is currently 31876689".</P><P>There is a big difference between these number. How is calculate the inodes number for my volume ?</P><P></P><P>If I increase the number of inode with maxfiles command, how does it work : does it increase the number of inode (until 6553600) or does it calculate a inode every 16KB ? </P><P></P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:34:14 GMT kinsat 2025-06-05T06:34:14Z how maxfiles is calculate ? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/how-maxfiles-is-calculate/m-p/37536#M8938 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>maxfiles define the number of inodes in a volume. </P><P>I create a 2TB volume : vol create vol_test 2TB -&gt; the volume size is : 209715200Kb</P><P>If a understand how it works, by default, there is a inode every 32KB ; I should have, 6553600 inodes for my volume (maybe less with 5% reserve), but the maxfiles command shows : "Volume voltest: maximum number of files is currently 31876689".</P><P>There is a big difference between these number. How is calculate the inodes number for my volume ?</P><P></P><P>If I increase the number of inode with maxfiles command, how does it work : does it increase the number of inode (until 6553600) or does it calculate a inode every 16KB ? </P><P></P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:34:14 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/how-maxfiles-is-calculate/m-p/37536#M8938 kinsat 2025-06-05T06:34:14Z Re: how maxfiles is calculate ? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/how-maxfiles-is-calculate/m-p/37541#M8939 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi, </P><P></P><P>The default limit is set to 31876689 for any volume greater than 1TB , Please see the link below for the same</P><P></P><P><A href="http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&amp;Display=199233" target="_blank">http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&amp;Display=199233</A></P><P></P><P>Kumaresan</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:27:24 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/how-maxfiles-is-calculate/m-p/37541#M8939 kumaraysun 2012-02-22T08:27:24Z