On Mon, 2006-07-31 18:44:33 +0200, Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, 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. > > Of course you are right. Preparation work was not fully done. And using > ext1 would also have been possible. I suspect you are still using ext1, > cause with proper preparation it is perfectly usable. Nope, I'm a quite happy ext3 user for quite divergent workloads. Starting with storing loads of small files in a hugh number of directories (mkfs -T news) over hugh numbers of files in few directories (mkfs -O dir_index) to only a small number of really hugh files (mkfs -T largefile4). All that I still need to catch up with is 4TB sized files. But I guess this is really an uncommon workload, but ISTR that somebody even works on this. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de +49-172-7608481 Signature of: Don't believe in miracles: Rely on them! the second :