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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 16:04:12 +0400
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [STUPID TESTCASE] ext3 htree vs. reiserfs on
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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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