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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2017
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Nikhil Khandelwal, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregory E. McBride, Vail, AZ (US);
Richard A. Welp, Tucson, AZ (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/17 (2019.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/18 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1727 (2019.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/18 (2019.01);
Abstract
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for managing filesystem inodes. The mechanism monitors inode consumption in a filesystem. The mechanism periodically determines a number of inodes to add to the filesystem based on the inode consumption and adds the number of inodes to the filesystem.