https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/running-out-of-inode/m-p/3330367#M13182 Stuart,<BR />thanks for your curiosity. I check with our developers. It turns out that they soft link files and never removed it after the process exit. But it is good to know about dynamic inode features on jfs,resizerfs, and xfs. <BR /><BR />Thanks all for you input. Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:02:20 GMT K.C. Chan 2004-07-14T10:02:20Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/running-out-of-inode/m-p/3330364#M13179 Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on<BR />/dev/hda4 7143424 7143424 0 100% /usr/local/lms<BR /><BR />Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on<BR />/dev/hda4 27660732 181872 26051084 1% /usr/local/lms<BR /><BR />as you can see, physical space is not an issue. This is on ext3 file system. Are there any file system which can allocate inode dynamically. Thanks. Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:59:43 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/running-out-of-inode/m-p/3330364#M13179 K.C. Chan 2004-07-13T14:59:43Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/running-out-of-inode/m-p/3330365#M13180 I have to ask..<BR /><BR />How can you be using 7 *MILLION* inodes when your using less than 200MB of space?<BR /><BR />What does the output of the command:<BR /><BR />tune2fs -l /dev/hda4<BR /><BR />have to say about the filesystem? When was the last time you ran an 'fsck' over the filesystem? Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:04:45 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/running-out-of-inode/m-p/3330365#M13180 Stuart Browne 2004-07-13T18:04:45Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/running-out-of-inode/m-p/3330366#M13181 To answer the specific question though, <BR /> <BR />resiserfs, jfs and xfs all have dynamic inode allocation. ext3 does not.<BR /> <BR />ext3 is pretty much just the venerable ext2 with a journal. I imagine that this is why ext3 needs a pre-allocated inode table.<BR /> Wed, 14 Jul 2004 03:17:32 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/running-out-of-inode/m-p/3330366#M13181 Mark Grant 2004-07-14T03:17:32Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/running-out-of-inode/m-p/3330367#M13182 Stuart,<BR />thanks for your curiosity. I check with our developers. It turns out that they soft link files and never removed it after the process exit. But it is good to know about dynamic inode features on jfs,resizerfs, and xfs. <BR /><BR />Thanks all for you input. Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:02:20 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/running-out-of-inode/m-p/3330367#M13182 K.C. Chan 2004-07-14T10:02:20Z