From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [STUPID TESTCASE] ext3 htree vs. reiserfs on 2.5.40-mm1
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:37:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021003003739.GA4381@think.thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021002165454.GV3000@clusterfs.com>
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:54:54AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Oct 02, 2002 14:48 +0400, Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote:
> > Unfortunately, there still one issue in ext3. It called "inode limit".
> > Initially I wanted to run this test on 1000000 files but ... I hit
> > inode limit and don't want to increase it artificially yet.
> >
> > Reiserfs worked fine because it don't have such kind of limit ...
>
> We have plans to fix this already, but it is not high enough on anyones
> priority list quite yet (most filesystems have enough inodes for regular
> usage).
Just to be clear, the limit which Paul is referring to is just simply
a matter of creating the filesystem with a sufficient number of
inodes. (i.e., mke2fs -N 1200000). Yes, having a dynamic inode table
would be good, but in practice sysadmins know how many inodes are
needed in advance.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-03 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-01 19:59 [STUPID TESTCASE] ext3 htree vs. reiserfs on 2.5.40-mm1 Paul P Komkoff Jr
2002-10-01 20:43 ` Hans Reiser
2002-10-01 20:49 ` Hans Reiser
2002-10-01 21:17 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-01 21:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-01 20:43 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-01 21:19 ` Hans Reiser
2002-10-02 10:48 ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2002-10-02 16:54 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-03 0:37 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2002-10-03 12:04 ` [Ext2-devel] " Hans Reiser
2002-10-03 19:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-03 19:44 ` Hans Reiser
2002-10-04 15:53 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-10-04 17:09 ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2002-10-07 6:54 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-10-10 0:27 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-01 21:27 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-02 16:38 ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2002-10-02 6:39 ` Nikita Danilov
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