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Subject: Re: Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes
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Michael David Crawford a =E9crit :
> Could you use several large hard drives each with several partitions=20
> that each have one filesystem?
>=20
> With eight drives and eight partitions on each, you would multiply the=20
> maximum total number of inodes by 256.
>=20
> Mike

Hello

It seems ZFS would match his needs , why don't use it ?