On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 02:21:35PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> > > The "maxpct" section of the mkfs.xfs manpage has a gratuitous and > incorrect description of the default inode allocator mode. > > inode64 has been the default since 2012, as of > > 08bf540412ed xfs: make inode64 as the default allocation mode > > so the description is wrong. In addition, imaxpct is only > tangentially related to inode allocator behavior, so this section > of the man page is really the wrong place for discussion. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> Looks ok, Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --D > --- > man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 | 19 ++++++------------- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 > index a7f7028..a67532a 100644 > --- a/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 > +++ b/man/man8/mkfs.xfs.8 > @@ -568,22 +568,15 @@ can be allocated to inodes. The default > is 25% for filesystems under 1TB, 5% for filesystems under 50TB and 1% > for filesystems over 50TB. > .IP > -In the default inode allocation mode, inode blocks are chosen such > -that inode numbers will not exceed 32 bits, which restricts the inode > -blocks to the lower portion of the filesystem. The data block > -allocator will avoid these low blocks to accommodate the specified > -maxpct, so a high value may result in a filesystem with nothing but > -inodes in a significant portion of the lower blocks of the filesystem. > -(This restriction is not present when the filesystem is mounted with > -the > -.I "inode64" > -option on 64-bit platforms). > -.IP > Setting the value to 0 means that essentially all of the filesystem > -can become inode blocks, subject to inode32 restrictions. > +can become inode blocks (subject to possible > +.B inode32 > +mount option restrictions, see > +.BR xfs (5) > +for details.) > .IP > This value can be modified with > -.IR xfs_growfs(8) . > +.BR xfs_growfs (8). > .TP > .BI align[= value ] > This is used to specify that inode allocation is or is not aligned. The > -- > 1.8.3.1 >
