[NTLUG:Discuss] Filesystems and inodes

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Mon Sep 4 14:40:09 CDT 2006


Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Having just been burned by "not enough inodes" I'm now wondering if 
> there is a good Linux file system featuring the ability to grow them 
> dynamically.  Maybe I just don't understand the technology but I don't 
> see why this is so hard.  I'm running CentOS, so if it's something other 
> than ext* or M$ variants it looks like I'll have to get RPMs.  If you 
> recommend something else please also recommend a source to get it as well.
> 

Filesystems like reiserfs, jfs (possibly others) don't have the concept
of a fixed set of inodes.... use one of those.




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