Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.orgregarding reiser4 inclusion

From: Matthias Andree
Date: Mon Jul 24 2006 - 13:33:56 EST


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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