Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [STUPID TESTCASE] ext3 htree vs. reiserfs on

Hans Reiser (reiser@namesys.com)
Thu, 03 Oct 2002 16:04:12 +0400


Theodore Ts'o wrote:

>
>
>Just to be clear, the limit which Paul is referring to is just simply
>a matter of creating the filesystem with a sufficient number of
>inodes. (i.e., mke2fs -N 1200000). Yes, having a dynamic inode table
>would be good, but in practice sysadmins know how many inodes are
>needed in advance.
>
> - Ted
>
>
>

No they don't. Average space wastage is more than 50% because sysadmins
have to be conservative.

Hans

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