[BlueOnyx:18439] Re: Understanding inodes

[Colin Jack]

Thanks Michael,




On 29/09/2015 02:16, "blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it on behalf of Michael Stauber" <blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it on behalf of mstauber at blueonyx.it> wrote:

>Hi Colin,
>
>> Most of my servers run 1G of inodes although with 5208R servers I have had to use 2G.
>> 
>> Just setup my first 5209R and I had to use 3G inodes just to get it started with quota enabled – still has nothing on it.
>> Is there a problem with this? When do I run out of indoors on the host?
>
>For storage you need two things:
>
>- Blocks
>- Inodes
>
>Say you want to save a file. Or the OS brings a file aboard (and the OS
>itself has many files). You need at least one block and one inode for
>each. Large files may need more than one block. How big the blocks are
>depends on the storage medium and what the hardisk offers. But inodes
>... that's the catch: You still need one for each file or folder. So you
>have to assign sufficient of those.

That certainly makes it much clearer. I just wondered why a vanilla new install of 5209R VPS required so many inodes compared to my other servers. 
I guess it has just grown a bit! ;)
Is there a limit to inodes I can allocate on an Aventurin{e} host?

Regards

Colin