Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:42:18 +0200
From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Increasing number of inodes after format?
Message-ID: <20040609094217.GA14564@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
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> I was involved in a discussion a while back where it was explained that 
> ext2/3 allocate a certain maximum number of inodes at format time, and 
> you cannot increase that number later.
> 
> It was also mentioned that one or more of the journaling file systems 
> (XFS, JFS, Reiser, etc.) either dynamically allocated inodes or could 
> increase the maximum later if the pre-allocated set got used up.
> 
> Could someone please repeat for me which filesystems have dynamic 
> maximum inode counts?
  ReiserFS also does not have any particular limit on the number of inodes
(because it actually does not have any ;).

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SuSE CR Labs
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