Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 07 Aug 2004 10:53:25 -0700 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: Increasing number of inodes after format? |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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