[Wlug] Weird fs problem...

[John Stoffel]

Tim> I suppose this poses the next question to WLUG.  What do people
Tim> recommend as tuning parameters and/or fs types for creating
Tim> filesystems that have the potential to store massive ammounts of
Tim> relatively small files?

Just tune the filesystem so that it's got lots and lots of inodes:

	mke2fs -T news -o dir_index,sparse_super -j  /dev/...

Tim> Would I have been better suited to have this thing formatted with
Tim> ReiserFS?

Not in my book.  Reiserfs3 was stuffed into the kernel and then pretty
much abandonded for the cool/gee-whiz/fast/extsensible reiserfs4 that
is now being pushed at the kernel.  

I don't trust either of them with my data at this point.  I like and
trust and understand ext3.  

I'd probably go with JFS (IBMs thing) first, but even then I'm leary...

John