Re: [IDEA] - run-length compaction of block numbers

From: Ian Pilcher
Date: Fri Jan 16 2004 - 15:39:08 EST


Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx 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?

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