Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Creating an ext4 filesystem on a 4 GB image file (to be loop-mounted
>> later) gives me 256K inodes. Choosing -i 4096 instead gives 1M, which
>> would mean the default for -i is 16384.
>
> That's right, look in /etc/mke2fs.conf:
>
> [defaults]
> base_features =
> sparse_super,filetype,resize_inode,dir_index,ext_attr
> blocksize = 4096
> inode_size = 256
> inode_ratio = 16384
>
>> Besides me finding 16384 a
>> little unreasonable (XFS offers 2M inodes by default),
>
> XFS is a totally different beast, because it dynamically allocates
> inodes. It doesn't really offer *anything* by default.
>
> Which part of a 16384-data-bytes-to-inode-count ratio do you find
> unreasonable? Do you find it unreasonably high, or unreasonably low?
Too high for 4G, to low for 6 TiB.
MfG
Goswin
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