inodes

[treasa davitt]

i am currently doing an article about inodes.
does anyboody know any good web sites explainig all the concepts

[Dan Hetzel]

Here are a couple of links that could help you:

http://europe-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=c215838e0c7c8fed46/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000044100215

http://europe-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=c215838e0c7c8fed46/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000037470438

Best regards,

Dan

[Darrel Louis]

Check on your system in /usr/share/doc.

The Veritas Admin Guide:
http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/os/veritas_admin.pdf

Configurable File-System Parameters
http://www.docs.hp.com//hpux/onlinedocs/os/KCparam.FilesysParamsList.html

Ownership and permissions are stored in the inode, anyone with write permission to a mounted partition can set the user ID for any file in that partition, regardless of the owner, bypassing the chmod() system call and other security checks.

Issue the ps -ef command on the NFS server, and check for many instances of the same application. Sometimes an application clones itself indefinitely until it uses up all the available inodes on a system.

The default maximum number of inodes shipped with HP-UX tends to be too small for sites that make extensive use of NFS. Follow this procedure to increase the maximum number of inodes on your NFS server:

Log in as root to the NFS server.

- SAM (System Administration Manager).
- Open Kernel Configuration.
- Open Configurable Parameters.
- Highlight the line that begins with ninode,
and choose Modify Configurable Parameter
from the Actions menu.
- Increase the value in the Formula/Value
field, either by changing the constant
multiplier in the formula or replacing the
formula with a value. If your ninode value
is currently set to the default (606), try
changing it to 2048.