From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030236AbWGaQpq (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:45:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030237AbWGaQpq (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:45:46 -0400 Received: from wenmed.demon.nl ([212.238.244.49]:57571 "EHLO wenmed.demon.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030236AbWGaQpp (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:45:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:44:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Rudy Zijlstra 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 Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion In-Reply-To: <20060731162224.GJ31121@lug-owl.de> Message-ID: 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > > MfG, JBG 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. Cheers, Rudy