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inode count on volume

VKALVEMULA
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did any see thw case where volume ran out of inodes.

-- did you increase the vol size or

   just increased the inode count, if so any perf issues.

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AGUMADAVALLI
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Hi Reddy,

Simple concept: Each 4K block is 1 node. lets say you have 1TB volume, the number of inodes you can have is: (1024 * 1024 *1024)/4= 268435456 inodes. The best practice is use upto 75 to 85% of nodes of  a volume. If you further need the inodes, you better increase the size of the volume and increase the inodes after the threshold is reached (85% inodes consumption).

First 1024 is GB and second  1024 is mb and third 1024 is KB - This is just a note.

I hope this is very clear to you.

thank you,

AK G

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JIULING_SHENHUA
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Good question!

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