[gpfsug-discuss] Those users....

[Skylar Thompson]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:37:55PM +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> On 22/08/18 18:12, Oesterlin, Robert wrote:
> >Sometimes, I look at the data that's being stored in my file systems and
> >just shake my head:
> >
> >/gpfs/<path removed>/Restricted/EventChangeLogs/deduped/working contains
> >17,967,350 files (in ONE directory)
> >
> 
> That's what inode quota's are for. Set it pretty high to begin with, say one
> million. That way the vast majority of users have no issues ever. Then the
> troublesome few will have issues at which point you can determine why they
> are storing so many files, and appropriately educate them on better ways to
> do it. Finally if they really need that many files just charge them for it
> :-) Having lots of files has a cost just like having lots of data has a
> cost, and it's not fair for the reasonable users to subsidize them.

Yep, we set our fileset inode quota to 1 million/TB of allocated space. It
seems overly generous to me but it's far better than no limit at all.

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