From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751527AbWGaK6u (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:58:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751529AbWGaK6u (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:58:50 -0400 Received: from blinkenlights.ch ([62.202.0.18]:23149 "EHLO blinkenlights.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751527AbWGaK6t (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:58:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:58:46 +0200 From: Adrian Ulrich To: "Horst H. von Brand" Cc: ipso@snappymail.ca, matthias.andree@gmx.de, reiser@namesys.com, lkml@lpbproductions.com, jeff@garzik.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion Message-Id: <20060731125846.aafa9c7c.reiser4@blinkenlights.ch> In-Reply-To: <200607241806.k6OI6uWY006324@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> References: <1153760245.5735.47.camel@ipso.snappymail.ca> <200607241806.k6OI6uWY006324@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> Organization: Bluewin AG X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.6 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-slackware-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > And EXT3 imposes practical limits that ReiserFS doesn't as well. The big > > one being a fixed number of inodes that can't be adjusted on the fly, > > Right. Plan ahead. Ok: Assume that i've read the mke2fs manpage and added more inodes to my filesystem. So: What happens if i need to grow my filesystem by 200% after 1-2 years? Can i add more inodes to Ext3 on-the-fly ? A filesystem with a fixed number of inodes (= not readjustable while mounted) is ehr.. somewhat unuseable for a lot of people with big and *flexible* storage needs (Talking about NetApp/EMC owners) Why are a lot of Solaris-people using (buying) VxFS? Maybe because UFS also has such silly limitations? (..and performs awkward with trillions of files..?..) Ext3 may be a fine and stable Filesystem and works well for a lot of people. But there are also a lot of people who need 'something' better like: VxFS, WAFL and Reiser4. Btw: Do you know Adics 'StorNext Filesystem' ? IMHO Ext3 will never be able to do such things... But with Reiser4.. .. if someone wrote a plugin .. ;-) Regards, Adrian