Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

Bernd Eckenfels
2006-07-26T13:02:46Z

Hello,

I know thats not relevant for the discussion, but I wanted to share my
experiences anyway (to emphasis how important df-i monitoring on smaller
filesystems is):

Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote:
> But the assertion that some backup was the cause for inode exhaustion on
> ext? is not very plausible since hard links do not take up inodes,
> symlinks are not backups and everything else requires disk blocks. So,
> since reformatting ext2/ext3 to one inode per block is possible
> (regardless of disk capacity), I see no way how a reformatted file
> system might run out of inodes before it runs out of blocks.

Well I had actually the problem on a tmpfs where I had too many zero byte
files...

Gruss
Bernd

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