chitgoks wrote: > hi john > > ext3 does have its limit right? because i am planning on upgrading the > file system to reiser instead. does retuning the file system always > have you require to back up your data? ext3's inode limits are set when you create the file system. the defaults are generally adequate, unless you're going to create very many very tiny files (say, <= 4K). AFAIK, ReiserFS is completely unsupported by RHEL and CentOS. You'll be on your own.