[KLUG Members] quota

Greg Mason gmason at fast-mail.org
Thu Sep 16 18:08:36 EDT 2004


> Already here - XFS.  XFS performs dynamic space allocation and for very
> small files just stores the contents as meta-data inside the files 
> inode
> entry in the space that would be used by the block-map of a 'large'
> file.  Inode allocation is also handled dynamically, rather than
> creating a static number when the filesystem is created (like ext2,
> ext3, etc...).  The inode count can both increase and decrease
> on-demand.
I'm pretty sure that ReiserFS does this as well...

-Greg



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