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

Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-03T00:32:40Z

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