installer default inode count

[Hollis R Blanchard]

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Paul DuBois wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 08:15:28PM -0500, Jon Howell wrote:
> > I recently installed LinuxPPC 1999 Q3, and today I ran out of inodes.
> > My 3G disk is only 67% full. It turns out my inode ratio is about
> > one inode per 32KB. The default for mk2efs is 4KB (-i 4096).
> > 32KB seems extreme. Indeed, I see from the mailing list archive
> > that someone else ran into the same problem in September
> > (http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-dev/199911/msg00047.html).
> 
> This happened to me a couple of weeks ago, and the problem went away
> when I reduced the size of the affected partition to be less than 2GB.
> I assumed that perhaps some integer overflow problem occurred in
> the math that computes the number of inodes, because that number
> was ridiculously low.

The problem was in older X installers, which incorrectly interpreted pdisk's
output. It's since been fixed, so all users trying to install Q3 (so chances
are they'll never read this :( ) should download the new ramdisk (which
contains the newer installer) from ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/install.

-Hollis


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