[LEDE-DEV] [RFC 2/3] config: ext4: do not set a maximum inode number by default

Michael Heimpold mhei at heimpold.de
Mon Oct 17 12:41:37 PDT 2016


Hi,

Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2016, 01:59:43 CEST schrieb Jo-Philipp Wich:
> There is very little practical use to limit the number of available inodes
> on an ext4 filesystem and the make_ext4fs utility is able to calculate
> useful defaults by itself.
> 
> Keep the option 

I always wondered whether somebody really needs/uses this...

So, if nobody speaks up with a real use-case, I'd prefer to see
this option to go completely.

Regards,
Michael


> but make it empty by default to allow make_ext4fs to
> calculate the optimal number of inodes when generating an ext4 file system.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo at mein.io>
> ---
>  config/Config-images.in | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/config/Config-images.in b/config/Config-images.in
> index 05b817b..7d38341 100644
> --- a/config/Config-images.in
> +++ b/config/Config-images.in
> @@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ menu "Target Images"
>  		config TARGET_EXT4_MAXINODE
>  			int "Maximum number of inodes in root filesystem"
>  			depends on TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT4FS
> -			default 6000
>  			help
>  			  Select the maximum number of inodes in the root filesystem.





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