On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 01:34:11PM +0200, Christian Iversen wrote: > On Monday 24 July 2006 12:25, Matthias Andree wrote: > > The bottom line is reiserfs 3.6 imposes practial limits that ext3fs > > doesn't impose and that's reason enough for an administrator not to > > install reiserfs 3.6. Sorry. > > And what do you do if you, say, run of of inodes on ext3? Do you think the > users will care about that?
>From what I've seen from our customers, that never happens. Yes, there are sometimes people with a million inodes in use, and we've seen four million once, but that's never been a problem, even not with a huge mail server with thousands of users having mailboxes in maildir format. We usually limit our own filesystems to 12 million inodes and it's never been a problem to store files from our customers. > Or what if the number of files in your mail queue > or proxy cache* become large enough for your fs operations to slow to a > crawl? Not a problem anymore with htree dirextory indexing. If it's not yet enabled (dumpe2fs the filesystem and look for the "dir_index" feature), enable it with: tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/whatever After the next mount the filesystem will use it for new directories. To optimize existing directories, run e2fsck -D. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands