Re: Increasing number of inodes after format?

Hans Reiser
2004-08-07T17:53:26Z

Dave Kleikamp wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 16:27, Timothy Miller wrote:
>
>
>>I was involved in a discussion a while back where it was explained that
>>ext2/3 allocate a certain maximum number of inodes at format time, and
>>you cannot increase that number later.
>>
>>It was also mentioned that one or more of the journaling file systems
>>(XFS, JFS, Reiser, etc.) either dynamically allocated inodes or could
>>increase the maximum later if the pre-allocated set got used up.
>>
>>Could someone please repeat for me which filesystems have dynamic
>>maximum inode counts?
>>
>>
>
>JFS dynamically allocates inodes as needed. An inode extent (consisting
>of 32 inodes) will also be freed if all of its inodes are freed.
>
>
reiserfs V3 and V4 have stat data not on disk inodes, and they are
dynamically allocated.