Mike Benoit wrote: > I've been bitten by running out of inodes on several occasions, and by > switching to ReiserFS it saved one company I worked for over $250,000 > because they didn't need to buy a totally new piece of software.
ext3fs's inode density is configurable, reiserfs's hash overflow chain length is not, and it doesn't show in df -i either. If you need lots of inodes, mkfs for lots. That's old Unix lore.