Anton Aylward wrote:
Or are you creating a new partition with a ReiserFS for /var/spool/news *AND* converting /var itself to a ResiserFS? I am only converting complete /var to ReiserFS and keep the same size for /var. I doubt it very much. You'd have the same problem about inodes vs data that you had with ext4.
Give the above, why not switch to a file system that allows you change the percentage space given to inodes, 'after the fact'? I don't know which file systems support this besides 'xfs' (using xfs_growfs -m). Seems like that might be worth some minor consideration.
From my POV ext4 is still experimental. So what? I'm an engineer; it works for me. I'm kicking it around and not having any problems with it and getting to understand it better than I did last year.
And from this perspective, there are not any file systems on linux with more maturity behind them than xfs. I think it's 20 years old this year, yet it's beginning feature set included more features than what even many current file systems support by default or at all, including ACL's, XATTR's, real-time IO, high file I/O rates, generally low fragmentation, but one of the few to come with a file "defrag'ger" for fixing degenerate cases (literally -- that's why it was written -- a customer came to them and wanted to know why he wasn't getting the perf he should have -- his app generated lots of file interleaving -- not good for single-file I/O... According to the xfs website, openSuSE is one of the distros that works with the xfs team to make sure it works on openSuSE systems. Caveat: not for use on systems where sudden power loss and crashes are frequent! Works excellently if you have a UPS or similar (a laptop was great, as any power outage, it automatically went to battery). XFS keeps much stuff in buffers as long as possible so it can be written to disk in as few as disk writes as possible. The default on desktops is about 5 seconds (in computer time, that's a long time), but in laptop mode, it would flush about every 30 so worked well there, as well... Anyway -- there may be other FS that support reallocating inode space, they might be more convenient than running into the same problem again later. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org