[ale] reiserfs question

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at attbi.com
Sat Nov 9 16:08:03 EST 2002


Hi, Dave -

Reiserfs is supposed to be good for large quantities of small files.  I
have been using it on my file server for some time and it has been
working flawlessly, even though there have been several recommendations
to not use it (not the least of which being from the Gentoo team).

- Jeff  

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 15:31, David Corbin wrote:
> I've set up a server to be a mail server.  For the first time, and I'm 
> using "maildir" to store mail, and resierfs for improved reliability.  
> 
> I'm anything but an expert on file-systems, but it seems to me that you 
> used to have ((on *some* types filesystems) to "worry" about having 
> enough inodes on a given file system, with each file taking up at least 
> one inode.  Since my mail is going to take up a lot more files than it 
> used to, (I get hundreds of mail messages a day, and "archive" an awful 
> lot of them), I wanted to ask if resiserfs has any type of limit on the 
> number of files it can handle.
> 
> Thanks
> David
> 
> 
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