thanks for the response Eric. I am already setting the bytes per inode ratio :-) I suppose we can wait for brtfs On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mag Gam wrote: >> I was curious if ext4 has dynamic inode allocation. Presently, the >> application we run which resides on ext3; we constantly run out of >> inodes because each file is about 2KB but there are millions of them. > > ext4 does not currently have dynamic inode allocation, though there has > been some discussion of that. > > You can create your filesystem with more inodes from the start, though; > -i bytes-per-inode (-i 2048) should be about right. > >> Also, is ext4 going to be a module or has to be compiled into the kernel? > > that depends on how you build your kernel, it's a config option. > > -Eric > _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
