dynamic inode allocation

Mag Gam magawake at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 17:18:31 UTC 2008


This maybe a newbie question but how come other file systems such as
ReiserFS and Veritas' Vxfs dynamically allocate inodes and filesystems
such as ext2/ext3 and JFS we need to allocate them when creating the
filesystem? Is there a performance or maintenance gain when pre
allocating?

TIA




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