Re: increase number of inodes?

[Emiel Kollof <coolvibe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

[inode shortage snip]

>    Well, the defaults are pretty good as they stand but they are not
>    designed for squeezing large numbers of files onto fairly small
>    partitions.  If you wanted to make newfs smarter you could have it
>    drop back to 1K/8K for filesystems less then, say, 2GB, or have it
>    mess with the default bytes-per-inode parameter based on the size
>    of the partition, but it would be a poor heuristic at best.
>  
Hm, an extent-based filesystem would solve these kind of issues forever. 
It would also eliminate all kinds of slack that inodes cause. AFAIK a 
file smaller than sizeof(inode) will still occupy sizeof(inode). Hiten? 
Are you still planning on porting JFS someday? (not that I'm asking you 
to drop anything, but a timeframe like "Yeah, somewhere in the somewhat 
near future" would be good enough for me :)

Cheers,
Emiel