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[2/2] docs: sysctl: delete the description about inode-max

Message ID 20191028124353.25276-2-yamato@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
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Series [1/2] docs: sysctl: update description for inode-state | expand

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Masatake YAMATO Oct. 28, 2019, 12:43 p.m. UTC 
The code for inode-max was deleted long time ago
(< Linux-2.6.12-rc2).

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst | 12 ++----------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
index 596f84a1748d..5a99e37b5000 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@  Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/fs:
 - dquot-nr
 - file-max
 - file-nr
-- inode-max
 - inode-nr
 - inode-state
 - nr_open
@@ -136,18 +135,12 @@  enough for most machines. Actual limit depends on RLIMIT_NOFILE
 resource limit.
 
 
-inode-max, inode-nr & inode-state
+inode-nr & inode-state
 ---------------------------------
 
 As with file handles, the kernel allocates the inode structures
 dynamically, but can't free them yet.
 
-The value in inode-max denotes the maximum number of inode
-handlers. This value should be 3-4 times larger than the value
-in file-max, since stdin, stdout and network sockets also
-need an inode struct to handle them. When you regularly run
-out of inodes, you need to increase this value.
-
 The file inode-nr contains the first two items from
 inode-state, so we'll skip to that file...
 
@@ -156,8 +149,7 @@  The actual numbers are, in order of appearance, nr_inodes
 and nr_free_inodes.
 
 Nr_inodes stands for the number of inodes the system has
-allocated, this can be slightly more than inode-max because
-Linux allocates them one pageful at a time.
+allocated.
 
 Nr_free_inodes represents the number of free inodes.