The third field of inode-state is dummy (== 0). Update the description about the actual fields and dummies. Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst index 2a45119e3331..596f84a1748d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst @@ -151,18 +151,15 @@ out of inodes, you need to increase this value. The file inode-nr contains the first two items from inode-state, so we'll skip to that file... -Inode-state contains three actual numbers and four dummies. -The actual numbers are, in order of appearance, nr_inodes, -nr_free_inodes and preshrink. +Inode-state contains two actual numbers and five dummies. +The actual numbers are, in order of appearance, nr_inodes +and nr_free_inodes. Nr_inodes stands for the number of inodes the system has allocated, this can be slightly more than inode-max because Linux allocates them one pageful at a time. -Nr_free_inodes represents the number of free inodes (?) and -preshrink is nonzero when the nr_inodes > inode-max and the -system needs to prune the inode list instead of allocating -more. +Nr_free_inodes represents the number of free inodes. overflowgid & overflowuid -- 2.17.2
