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

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Message-ID: <5d6b65750607261154q7ca21742q8dd69e4e08ff86fa@mail.gmail.com>
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
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