Does GFS or GFS2 allocate inodes dynamically?

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Issue

  • Does GFS or GFS2 allocate inodes dynamically so that they don't run out of inodes like ext3 does?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5, 6, 7 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
  • A Global Filesystem (GFS)
  • A Global Filesystem 2(GFS2)

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