running out of inode ...

[K.C. Chan]

Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/hda4 7143424 7143424 0 100% /usr/local/lms

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda4 27660732 181872 26051084 1% /usr/local/lms

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.

[Stuart Browne]

I have to ask..

How can you be using 7 *MILLION* inodes when your using less than 200MB of space?

What does the output of the command:

tune2fs -l /dev/hda4

have to say about the filesystem? When was the last time you ran an 'fsck' over the filesystem?

[Mark Grant · Accepted solution]

To answer the specific question though,

resiserfs, jfs and xfs all have dynamic inode allocation. ext3 does not.

ext3 is pretty much just the venerable ext2 with a journal. I imagine that this is why ext3 needs a pre-allocated inode table.

[K.C. Chan]

Stuart,
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.

Thanks all for you input.