From: Neo (Neo.the.Matrix@t-online.de)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 15:07:13 CEST
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From: Michele Andreoli <m.andreoli@tin.it>
To: <mulinux@sunsite.auc.dk>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Mu tech or Mu inst]Customizing problems
> On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 05:48:37PM +0200, Neo nicely wrote:
> >
> > I think, it would be better that the number of inodes is programmable in
> > mu.cnf or if mu counts the number of files and calculates the number of
> > inodes. I can do this, if this is wanted.
> >
> > Enno Welbers
> >
>
> Sure but, with backward compatibility in mind, please: try to use
> only the -i option in mkfs.ext2. I run in my machine this release:
>
> mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
>
>
> This is the relative part of mkfs man-page:
>
> ====================================================================
> -i bytes-per-inode
> Specify the bytes/inode ratio. mke2fs creates an
> inode for every bytes-per-inode bytes of space on
> the disk. This value defaults to 4096 bytes.
> bytes-per-inode must be at least 1024.
> ====================================================================
>
> Because muLinux use small files, you can increase the ratio inode/bytes.
> I think you plan to count inodes with a sort of "find .|wc -l" ?
>
> Michele
For now, I only plan to do this using a variable in mu.cnf, because I don't
know, which directories go to usr, and which to the root package. If I know
which files are on the USR package, then I think about how to solve the
problem.
Enno Welbers
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