Although I started this thread raising the sceptre of past experience with inode exhaustion, no-one has addressed the 'advantages' of ext4. The advice I've been given boils down to :- * use XFS Well since I use ReiserFS that would not be a great change for the better. Both are Btree based file systems. I've also discussed the advantages and problems of BtrFS. * over-provision the inodes The calculations were not different from those I faces with the UNIX V6/V7 file system back in the late 1970s. What's been absent from this thread are the supposed advantages of ext4 for space management. Googling, I find mention of things like : multiblock allocation, delayed allocation, journal checksum. Fast fsck, extent-mapped files for more efficient storage of file metadata. It was that last item that caught my attention. But the thread has avoided all these. So far no-one, nothing I've read, has given me a compelling reason to move from ReiserFS. Its certainly efficient and functional for general and smaller files. -- Editing is a rewording activity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org