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On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 8:43 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I've already got data on the drive now with the default settings so it |
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> is to late for the moment however, I expect to need to add drives |
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> later. Keep in mind, I use LVM which means I grow file systems quite |
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> often by adding drives. I don't know if that grows inodes or not. I |
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> suspect it does somehow. |
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It does not. It just means that if you want to reformat it you have |
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to reformat all the drives in the LVM logical volume. :) |
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There are filesystems that don't have fixed limits on inodes on |
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filesystem creation, but ALL filesystems have tradeoffs. This is one |
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of the big limitations of ext4, but ext4 also has a number of |
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advantages over alternatives. I tend to use zfs but it has its own |
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issues. I don't believe inodes are fixed in zfs, but the last time I |
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looked into it there were potential issues with reducing the size of a |
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vdev. (I think that was being worked on but I'm not sure how stable |
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that is, or if it is compatible with grub. Actually, one of my pet |
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peeves has been that finding out exactly what zfs features are |
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compatible with grub is tricky. Oh, you can google it, but I don't |
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think there is any official page that is kept up to date.) |
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Rich |
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