Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion | From | Dan Oglesby <> | Date | Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:47:00 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 18:22 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-31 17:59:58 +0200, Adrian Ulrich <reiser4@blinkenlights.ch> 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. > > MfG, JBG >
I'd agree with that statement. The wrong filesystem was chosen at the beginning of the project.
As someone who is currently planning to migrate ~100GB of stored mail to the Maildirs format, it was pretty clear early on that EXT3 would not cut it (from past and current experiences), and not just for the sake of calculating inodes.
--Dan
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