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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:54:12 +0200 From: "Buddy Lucas" <buddy.lucas@...il.com> To: "Bernd Eckenfels" <be-news06@...a.inka.de> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion On 7/26/06, Bernd Eckenfels <be-news06@...a.inka.de> wrote: > > Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@....de> wrote: > > But the assertion that some backup was the cause for inode exhaustion on > > ext? is not very plausible since hard links do not take up inodes, > > symlinks are not backups and everything else requires disk blocks. So, > > since reformatting ext2/ext3 to one inode per block is possible > > (regardless of disk capacity), I see no way how a reformatted file > > system might run out of inodes before it runs out of blocks. > > Well I had actually the problem on a tmpfs where I had too many zero byte > files... Yes, I once ran out of inodes because logrotate kept rotating and compressing already compressed and empty logfiles. I can't remember how many seconds it took me to add 'df -i' to our monitoring system. This, however, was not a feature of the software. I assume. So, any company that considers the remote possibility of seeking a $250,000 solution, where the alternative is to buy a 36GB hard drive, please give me a call. Cheers, Buddy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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