Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265835AbUAPUgc (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:36:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265836AbUAPUgb (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:36:31 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:14254 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265835AbUAPUgF (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:36:05 -0500 Message-ID: <40084B33.60209@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:36:03 -0600 From: Ian Pilcher User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [IDEA] - run-length compaction of block numbers References: <200401161954.i0GJsEgj003906@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200401161954.i0GJsEgj003906@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 850 Lines: 20 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > On the other hand, dynamic allocation of inodes is interesting, as it means > you're not screwed if over time, the NBPI value for the filesystem changes (or > if you simply guessed wrong at mkfs time) and you run out of inodes when you > still have space free. Reiserfs V3 already does this, in fact... > As does JFS. Anyone know about XFS? -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher i.pilcher@comcast.net ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/