problems with Solaris UFS limits

[Didi Rieder]

Quoting Rudy Gevaert <Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be>:

> Didi Rieder wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately the Solaris ufs supports just about 1 million inodes   
>> /  TB when the filesystem is >= 1TB, which of course is not enough   
>> for a  mail spool.
>
> I thought you could give an option when making your file system to
> allow more inodes.

You can, but the nbpi can not be set lower than 1 Mbyte on a  
multiterabyte UFS filesystem (>= 1TB) which means, that you can get a  
maximum of ~1 million inodes / Terabyte.

see:
     newfs (1M)
     <http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5093/6mkisoq4u?a=view#fsoverview-18>

Didi

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