Re: Increasing number of inodes after format?

Jan Kara
2004-06-09T09:42:31Z

> 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?
ReiserFS also does not have any particular limit on the number of inodes
(because it actually does not have any ;).

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SuSE CR Labs