lacie "big disk and rh 7.3 SOLVED

[chuck lawrence]

chuck lawrence wrote:

> uhh, *you* sorted it out, sir.  you were exactly right about the inodes. 
>  I had used mkfs w/default values before.  mke2fs -n told me I had ~6m 
> inodes.  mke2fs -N 120000000 (12m) works just fine, so far.  I'm at 60gb 
> and writing.  it wasn't firewire at all.
> 
> the freezing behavior just went away, even before I did this.  it may be 
> something wildly erratic.  dunno.


I spoke too soon.  72gb in, and it froze again.  I'm going to try an 
even larger number of inodes.  I wish I knew the right number.  anyone 
got any scientific strategies?

stay tuned...

> thanks.  this isn't the first time you've made me look smart...

and also not the first time I've made myself look foolish.  sigh.


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