[gpfsug-discuss] Independent fileset free inodes

Rei Lee rclee at lbl.gov
Fri Aug 7 17:30:21 BST 2015


We have the same problem when we started using independent fileset. I 
think this should be a RFE item that IBM should provide a tool similar 
to 'mmdf -F' to show the number of free/used inodes for an independent 
fileset.

Rei

On 8/7/15 8:56 AM, Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services) wrote:
> I was just wondering if anyone had a way to return the number of free/used inodes for an independent fileset and all its children.
>
> We recently had a case where we were unable to create new files in a child file-set, and it turns out the independent parent had run out of inodes.
>
> mmsf however only lists the inodes used directly in the parent fileset, I.e. About 8 as that was the number of child filesets.
>
> The suggestion from IBM support is that we use mmdf and then add up the numbers from all the child filesets to workout how many are free/used in the independent fileset.
>
> Does anyone have a script to do this already?
>
> Surely there is a better way?
>
> Thanks
>
> Simon
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