On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Dan Hollis wrote:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, dean gaudet wrote:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Marc Perkel wrote:
Reiser doesn't use INodes and appears to have infinite inodes. I've never used maildir but if I did I'd want to use Reiser on it because that's where Reiser is supposed to really gain. i'm referring to the inodes in the kernel's memory -- not on disk... even reiser has an inode in memory otherwise it can't present the POSIX file api.
inodes only use kernel memory when the file is accessed. in this respect there is no difference in the memory usage between reiserfs or ext3 or any other filesystem. think about the case of network filesystems for example.
i think we're agreeing aren't we?
the only reason i care about kernel memory usage is that once you start scaling to 1000s of simultaneous users kernel memory starts becoming scarce... with maildir it happens a lot faster than with mailbox.
for small systems it just doesn't matter :)
-dean