Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Oct 2002 20:37:39 -0400 | From | "Theodore Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [STUPID TESTCASE] ext3 htree vs. reiserfs on 2.5.40-mm1 |
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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.
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