Re: VFS: No free inodes - contact Linus

Kutsal BerberoGlu (kutsal@ug.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr)
Fri, 14 Feb 1997 11:21:55 +0200 (EET)


On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Jari Soderholm wrote:

> > echo 11264 >/proc/sys/kernel/inode-max
>
> I wonder how I am going to do that becauce machine goes
> stuck before it even mounted the root directory.

I guess changing NR_INODE in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h and
recompiling a new kernel will help.. Its default is:

#define NR_INODE 3072 /* this should be bigger than NR_FILE */
#define NR_FILE 1024 /* this can well be larger on a larger system */

Hope this helps..

-Kutsal