From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932173AbWGXRfc (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:35:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932187AbWGXRfc (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:35:32 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.21]:2512 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932173AbWGXRfc (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:35:32 -0400 X-Authenticated: #428038 Message-ID: <44C504DC.6080907@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:35:24 +0200 From: Matthias Andree User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060411) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Benoit CC: Hans Reiser , lkml@lpbproductions.com, Jeff Garzik , Theodore Tso , LKML , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion References: <44C12F0A.1010008@namesys.com> <44C28A8F.1050408@garzik.org> <44C32348.8020704@namesys.com> <200607230212.55293.lkml@lpbproductions.com> <44C44622.9050504@namesys.com> <20060724085455.GD24299@merlin.emma.line.org> <44C4813E.2030907@namesys.com> <20060724102508.GA26553@merlin.emma.line.org> <1153760245.5735.47.camel@ipso.snappymail.ca> In-Reply-To: <1153760245.5735.47.camel@ipso.snappymail.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.