From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750942AbWGZL0s (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:26:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932533AbWGZL0s (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:26:48 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.21]:28879 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751061AbWGZL0q (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:26:46 -0400 X-Authenticated: #428038 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:26:44 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: David Masover , LKML , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion Message-ID: <20060726112644.GB18329@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: David Masover , LKML , ReiserFS List References: <200607242151.k6OLpDZu009297@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <200607251708.13660.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <20060725204910.GA4807@merlin.emma.line.org> <44C6A390.2040001@slaphack.com> <20060726112039.GA18329@merlin.emma.line.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060726112039.GA18329@merlin.emma.line.org> X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12 (2006-07-17) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Matthias Andree 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. OK; ext2/ext3 require 1k blocks, but still you need heaps of files < 1k to run out of inodes without running of space. -- Matthias Andree