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Re:Ash HN: What if we use file system as database? by xyheme on Thursday October 05, 2023 @10:08AM (#37778814)
Inode limits depends on the file system you use.

I am using Btrfs.

Btrfs inode limits is in a whole different league (whereas ext4's inodes are allocated at filesystem creation time and cannot be resized after creation, typically at 1-2 million, with a hard limit of 4 billion, btrfs's inodes are dynamically allocated as needed, and the hard limit is 2^64, around 18.4 quintillion.

> -- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18388/what-are-the-...

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Re:Ash HN: What if we use file system as database? by warrenm on Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:48AM (#37780140)
I didn't realize btrfs was still around

I haven't seen anything but ext4 or xfs in over a decade

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Re:Ash HN: What if we use file system as database? by xyheme on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:19PM (#37783002)
Me and a lot of linux user friends are using btrfs.
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Re:Ash HN: What if we use file system as database? by warrenm on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:37PM (#37783244)
cool

nice to know it still exists :)

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