On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 11:04 -0400, bruce wrote:
1) What's a good/easy/best approach to getting the max possible
number
of files for a drive. Isn't the inode count a "good" approximation
for
this.
. . .
If you have to use a filesystem with a fixed number of inodes set at
creation time, like ext4 for instance, then construct a "news"
filesystem. In general, passing the "news" flag will give you 4 times
as many inodes, in the assumption that you are going to have a huge
number of small files.
Otherwise, go with xfs or btrfs or something where the inodes are
dynamically constructed as-needed.