On Feb 20 20:58:49, ke...@scott-land.net wrote: > On 20/02/2013 07:36, Jan Stary wrote: > >>On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 00:35, Keith wrote: > >>>Q. How do I make the default web folder /var/www/ capable of holding > >>>millions of files (say 50GB worth of small 2kb-12kb files) so that I > >>>won't get inode issues ? > >newfs defaults to -f 2k and -b 16k which is fine if you > >know in advance you will hold 2k-12k files. As for inodes, > >the default of -i is to create an inode for every 4 frags, > >that is 8192 bytes. So on a 50G filesystem this should > >give you over 6.1 millon inodes. What does df -hi say? > > > >But first of all, fix your crappy app to not do that. > > > Hi, thanks for the info. Yesterday I did a backup, format, restore > of the /var/www partition
You said before you need to store 50G worth of files. So why did you create a 4.7G partition for it? > although to be honest I wasn't really sure > what i was doing with regards to the newfs command. Apparently: > I tried running > "newfs -i"with different values and settled on "newfs -i 1 /var/www" > as it seemed at the time to makes the make the most inodes and that > was just based on how much output was generated while newfs was > running. This is insane. Have you actually _read_ the manpage? I am a bit surprised newfs even lets you do that. You are creating one inode for every one byte. > # df -hi > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused > Mounted on > /dev/sd0a 1005M 135M 819M 14% 3272 152630 2% / > /dev/sd0k 1005M 2.0K 955M 0% 1 155901 0% /home > /dev/sd0n 21.0G 2.0K 20.0G 0% 1 2832253 0% /scratch > /dev/sd0d 3.9G 14.0K 3.7G 0% 21 545641 0% /tmp > /dev/sd0f 2.0G 461M 1.4G 24% 13537 272285 5% /usr > /dev/sd0g 1005M 193M 762M 20% 9547 146355 6% /usr/X11R6 > /dev/sd0h 6.8G 2.0G 4.5G 31% 41346 868092 5% /usr/local > /dev/sd0j 2.0G 2.0K 1.9G 0% 1 285821 0% /usr/obj > /dev/sd0i 1.9G 2.0K 1.8G 0% 1 285821 0% /usr/src > /dev/sd0e 6.3G 37.2M 6.0G 1% 740 856730 0% /var > /dev/sd0m 1001M 6.5M 944M 1% 53 155849 0% /var/log > /dev/sd0l 4.7G 1.2G 3.3G 26% 449170 2206316 17% /var/www > /dev/sd1a 1.8T 1.6T 147G 92% 720111 60427023 1% > /mnt/Media2TB > /dev/sd2a 55.0G 11.3G 41.0G 22% 208 7353262 0% /var/mysql > > The above "df -hi" output was done today after the wiped the app and > started it again from scratch. It had been running for about 12 > hours and there was about 450,000 files. How many files do you think > I'll be able to store with this number of inodes ? You have 449170 used inodes and 2206316 free inodes now (hint: 'iused', 'ifree'). Read 'man df' in its entirety. (Do you actually know what an inode is?) > I don't know how to fix the app or why the developers decided to > make so many files on disk so I asked in their chat room........ > > <Keef>: I don't know how many files I had at the time that I was > getting issues probably about 1/2 million That's why I asked exactly what errors you were getting. As said before, if you created a 50G partition (but now I don't even know if you did) with the default newfs, that would give you over 6M inodes, so it ould have been something else. Was the partition actually big enough? Was the demented app trying to create all those files in one directory?
