[raudette]

I ran a very small personal webserver with limited storage on Ubuntu on EC2 for a while.

The EC2 instance, likely the smallest configuration available at the time, hit an inode limit just running updates over time.

[Dylan16807]

Super small drives are a special case for sure. You don't want to go below a certain number of inodes even on a 5GB root, but you also don't want to scale that up 50x on a 250GB root.

[starspangled]

Why are super small drives a special case? It's still the same data to inode ratio.

[Dylan16807]

There's a lot of small files that come with your typical OS install, going into the first handfuls of gigabytes.

When you add on another terabyte, the distribution is totally different. The files are much bigger.

[starspangled]

Right, so it's entirely about usage rather than filesystem size.

[Dylan16807]

Different sizes have different uses.