From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030244AbWGaQto (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:49:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030243AbWGaQto (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:49:44 -0400 Received: from mail.teleformix.com ([12.15.20.75]:4224 "EHLO mail.teleformix.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030240AbWGaQtn (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:49:43 -0400 Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion From: Dan Oglesby Reply-To: doglesby@teleformix.com To: Jan-Benedict Glaw Cc: Adrian Ulrich , Matthias Andree , vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl, ipso@snappymail.ca, reiser@namesys.com, lkml@lpbproductions.com, jeff@garzik.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20060731162224.GJ31121@lug-owl.de> References: <1153760245.5735.47.camel@ipso.snappymail.ca> <200607241806.k6OI6uWY006324@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <20060731125846.aafa9c7c.reiser4@blinkenlights.ch> <20060731144736.GA1389@merlin.emma.line.org> <20060731175958.1626513b.reiser4@blinkenlights.ch> <20060731162224.GJ31121@lug-owl.de> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Teleformix, LLC Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:47:00 -0500 Message-Id: <1154364421.7964.22.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 18:22 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-31 17:59:58 +0200, Adrian Ulrich wrote: > > A colleague of mine happened to create a ~300gb filesystem and started > > to migrate Mailboxes (Maildir-style format = many small files (1-3kb)) > > to the new LUN. At about 70% the filesystem ran out of inodes; Not a > > So preparation work wasn't done. > > MfG, JBG > I'd agree with that statement. The wrong filesystem was chosen at the beginning of the project. As someone who is currently planning to migrate ~100GB of stored mail to the Maildirs format, it was pretty clear early on that EXT3 would not cut it (from past and current experiences), and not just for the sake of calculating inodes. --Dan