Re: AIX/ORACLE - Raid devices + async I/O

From: <tvweaver_at_austin.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 00:10:55 GMT
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In article <dischner-2710941753520001_at_gkc12a.klch.med.uni-muenchen.de> dischner_at_med.uni-muenchen.de (Anton Dischner) writes:
> > In 4.1.1 max filesystem size is up to 64 GByte (using NBPI ratio 4096)
> ^^^^
> At the risk of sounding dumb...
>
> Whats NBPI ratio?
>
Number of Bytes Per Inode - how many I-nodes do you want in your file system. If a file system is going to contain lots of small files, which would be contained in fragments, you'd pick a smaller NBPI, and get more I-nodes. Conversely, if a file system is going to contain fewer, larger files, you'd pick a large value of NBPI, and get fewer I-nodes. NBPI is basically a tuning parameter that allows you to try and maximize the space usage in the file system.

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Received on Fri Oct 28 1994 - 01:10:55 CET

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