On Wed 13 Mar 2019 at 21:44:11 -0000, Michael van Elst wrote: > rhialto%falu.nl@localhost (Rhialto) writes: > > > in the set is allocated and initialized. The set of blocks that may > > be allocated to inodes is held as part of the free-space reserve > > until all other space in the filesystem is allocated. Only then can > > it be used for file data. > > >But the bit at the end: if you don't need so many inodes, but run out of > >data space, then unused inode blocks can be re-purposed as data blocks. > > I says that blocks that might be used for inodes later aren't allocated > for data unless there is no other free block. It doesn't talk about > re-purposing inode blocks once they are used as such. I thought that was what I wrote... because of the "unused". -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- "What good is a Ring of Power \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- if you're unable...to Speak." - Agent Elrond
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