Hello John, Thursday, November 9, 2006, 12:03:58 PM, you wrote:
JC> Hi all, JC> When testing our programs, I got a problem. On UFS, we get the number of JC> free inode via 'df -e', then do some things based this value, such as JC> create an empty file, the value will decrease by 1. But on ZFS, it does JC> not work. I still can get a number via 'df -e', and create a same empty JC> file, the value is not my expectation. So I use a loop to produce empty JC> files and watch the output of 'df -e'. After some long time, the number JC> is 671, then 639, 641, 603, 605, 609, 397, 607... JC> I check the number of files, yes, it increases steadily. JC> Could you explain it? UFS has static number of inodes in a given file system so it's easy to say how much free inodes are left. ZFS creates inodes on demand so you can't say how much inodes you can create - however I guess one could calculate maximum possible number of inodes to be created given free space in a pool/fs. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
