bdf lies about how many inodes are free

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Ken:

Indeed, there is a paper describing just how poorly 'ninode' is understood:

http://docs.hp.com/en/5580/Misconfigured_Resources.pdf

Regards!

...JRF...

[Ken Stailey]

To overcome this problem run

fsadm -F vxfs -o largefiles /mnt

since in 32-bit mode you can hit the 2 GB limit of the size of the data structures used to hold inodes so even dynamic inode allocation will fail for want of table address space not data space.

[Bill Hassell]

Just to clarify: bdf -i is only meaningful for HFS filesystems. VxFS filesystems create inodes as needed so the value in bdf is an just a guess. The inode building continues until the disk is full or until the directory exceeds the maximum file size (directories are actually files too).