Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [STUPID TESTCASE] ext3 htree vs. reiserfs on 2.5.40-mm1

Hans Reiser
2002-10-03T11:58:53Z

Theodore Ts'o wrote:

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>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.
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> - Ted
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No they don't. Average space wastage is more than 50% because sysadmins
have to be conservative.

Hans