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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Increasing number of inodes after format?
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 10:53:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41151715.5090001@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1086811650.26565.50.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com>

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.

      reply	other threads:[~2004-08-07 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-08 21:27 Increasing number of inodes after format? Timothy Miller
2004-06-09  0:32 ` Nathan Scott
2004-06-09  9:42 ` Jan Kara
2004-06-09 10:06   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-09 16:09     ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-09 20:07 ` Dave Kleikamp
2004-08-07 17:53   ` Hans Reiser [this message]

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