Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

From: Jan-Benedict Glaw
Date: Mon Jul 31 2006 - 13:18:03 EST


On Mon, 2006-07-31 18:44:33 +0200, Rudy Zijlstra <rudy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-07-31 17:59:58 +0200, Adrian Ulrich
> > <reiser4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > A colleague of mine happened to create a ~300gb filesystem and started
> > > to migrate Mailboxes (Maildir-style format = many small files (1-3kb))
> > > to the new LUN. At about 70% the filesystem ran out of inodes; Not a
> >
> > So preparation work wasn't done.
>
> Of course you are right. Preparation work was not fully done. And using
> ext1 would also have been possible. I suspect you are still using ext1,
> cause with proper preparation it is perfectly usable.

Nope, I'm a quite happy ext3 user for quite divergent workloads.
Starting with storing loads of small files in a hugh number of
directories (mkfs -T news) over hugh numbers of files in few
directories (mkfs -O dir_index) to only a small number of really hugh
files (mkfs -T largefile4).

All that I still need to catch up with is 4TB sized files. But I guess
this is really an uncommon workload, but ISTR that somebody even works
on this.

MfG, JBG

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