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Cc: Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes
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> At this point you're sort of out of the general-use category :)  You want
> ZFS.  Or rather, you don't want to try and fsck a UFS filesystem with 200M
> inodes.  The three drawbacks I can think of to ZFS are it's hard to boot

ZFS is very trendy now, but isn't it allocating space in 4KB chunks?