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Re: [LUG] inodes

 

On Saturday 02 August 2008 20:15, Anton Channing wrote:
> Simon Waters wrote:
> > Anton Channing wrote:
> >> My webhost is complaining that I have
> >> exceeded my inode limit.  I never even
> >> realised there was such a limit, and
> >> certainly didn't know what an inode was.
> >
> > I think you need to be clear exactly which inode limit.
> >
> > Older Unix and Linux file systems had a per file system limit, but many
> > file systems now have as many inodes as needed (e.g. reiserfs).
>
> No, I'm on a shared hosting account and the host
> claims says that by exceeding 50,000 inodes (I have
> between 100,000 and 150,000), I am breaking the
> terms and conditions and that they have imposed
> this arbitrary limit to 'preserve disk integrity
> for the other users'.
>
> So I can have unlimited domains, but only 50,000
> inodes.  Seems like a lot, but many of the CMS
> systems I use have thousands of files each.
See if you can upgrade them to a DB of some form: that should reduce the count 
to about 100. In a CMS you shouldn't get much locking. And the 
backups/migration etc would be a lot easier.
Tom te tom te tom


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