[plug] X crash wipes dot files

[Mark Haselden]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:26:15PM +0800, Harry McNally wrote:
> Does reiserfs obfuscate the real meaning ? Just a wild stab.

I'm hardly a zen master but here goes anyway (my understanding, feel
free to correct me)

Reiserfs uses balanced trees to store filesystem metadata.  
Hence, there's no need for a fixed inode table - you can just keep growing 
the trees.  Hence, the number of available inodes is always 2^32 - no matter 
how many files you've got, you can always add more, disk space
limitations permitting.

Cheers

Mark

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themselves as they are when mixed with one another, and it is never 
clear what distinction is made between a catastrophic failure in the lab 
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