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

Matthias Andree
2006-07-26T11:26:48Z

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Matthias Andree 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.

OK; ext2/ext3 require 1k blocks, but still you need heaps of files < 1k
to run out of inodes without running of space.

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Matthias Andree