Messages in this thread | | | From | (Bernd Eckenfels) | Subject | Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:02:43 +0200 |
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Hello,
I know thats not relevant for the discussion, but I wanted to share my experiences anyway (to emphasis how important df-i monitoring on smaller filesystems is):
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote: > But the assertion that some backup was the cause for inode exhaustion on > ext? is not very plausible since hard links do not take up inodes, > symlinks are not backups and everything else requires disk blocks. So, > since reformatting ext2/ext3 to one inode per block is possible > (regardless of disk capacity), I see no way how a reformatted file > system might run out of inodes before it runs out of blocks.
Well I had actually the problem on a tmpfs where I had too many zero byte files...
Gruss Bernd
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