Re: what does /proc/sys/kernel/inode-nr represent?

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 10:40:45 -0500

Liem Bahneman wrote:
>
> I understand /proc/sys/kernel/file-nr, but not inode-nr. What does this
> info mean? (two values) and does it ever decrease? Mine's hovering at
> about 90000.
>
> I think my VFS "no more inode" problem was related to having too small of
> an inode-max, so I've since increased it to 131072.

To follow up on my earlier reply, are you by any chance using msdos (fat, vfat)
a lot? The 2.0.xx msdos code has inode leaks that are fixed in 2.1.xx, and if
you're doing a lot of renaming operations, you may be leaking massive numbers of
inodes.

If someone wants to fix this in the 2.0.xx tree, do a diff on msdos/namei.c as
relates to the handling of the linked and depend inodes.

Regards,
Bill

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