Re:Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, lock...
by Dylan16807 on Saturday April 01, 2023 @06:52PM
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The thing about running out of inodes is that the format command scales them with the size of the drive, and the default is 1 inode per 16KB. So for a standard google account at 2TB or maybe 5TB you'd have 125 million or 312 million inodes.
They've basically gone and set it up like "largefile" mode, 1 inode per 1MB, forced upon all users. That's a bad default and an even worse mandate.
Yes and no. This works differently from one filesystem to another, but search for "running out of inodes" to find many ways this can happen in reality, way below the technical limit of the filesystem itself. You can end up in situations where you can't create a new file and need to remove more than one to solve the situation. (Or even where removing many files doesn't seem to make a difference)