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

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Date:	Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:28:39 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@....de>
Cc:	Mike Benoit <ipso@...ppymail.ca>, 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

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:35:24 +0200, Matthias Andree said:
> 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.

Equally important - you can usually *see* "out of inodes" coming on a 'df -i'
long before a reiser3 filesystem hits the wall on a hash issue.

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