linux-kernel - Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

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Message-ID: <44C504DC.6080907@gmx.de>
Date:	Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:35:24 +0200
From:	Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@....de>
To:	Mike Benoit <ipso@...ppymail.ca>
CC:	Hans Reiser <reiser@...esys.com>, lkml@...productions.com,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@...esys.com>
Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org
 regarding reiser4 inclusion

Mike Benoit wrote:

> I've been bitten by running out of inodes on several occasions, and by
> switching to ReiserFS it saved one company I worked for over $250,000
> because they didn't need to buy a totally new piece of software.

ext3fs's inode density is configurable, reiserfs's hash overflow chain
length is not, and it doesn't show in df -i either.

If you need lots of inodes, mkfs for lots. That's old Unix lore.
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