Hitting Inode Limits
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri Aug 14 08:47:02 PDT 2009
Its a good test for HAMMER anyhow. The more people who use HAMMER in
different ways the better.
The hardlink mechanic will not be optimal, take care as the disk fills
up to limit the number of automatic snapshots so you can actually
recover space when removing directory trees.
I'm not sure if you are using a nohistory mount or not. With a nohistory
mount snapshots basically don't work but space will be recovered
directly by 'rm'. Even so, due to the hardlink mechanic you are using,
the space will be severely fragmented and might not recover as much
as hoped so running a regular hammer cleanup (it should happen
automatically from cron) will still be necessary.
One additional benefit: The hardlink counter in the HAMMER inode
is a 64 bit field, so unlike UFS it is not possible to hit a
hardlink limit on a file. In previous years I often hit the hardlink
limit on UFS for CVS/* files when using the hardlink mechanic for
backups because CVS itself hardlinks those files too.
-Matt
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