The Boy wrote on Feb 25^th, 2013 at 3:34pm:

i am not a Linux man but i been doing some looking on the inodes count issue  and to fix it all you need to do is use REISERFS FILE SYSTEM  rather than going with ext2/ext3, Because REISERFS FILE SYSTEM have the inbuilt capability to handle millions of chunks of files one of the pages i saved when i was looking at this is Using the New Linux ReiserFS Filesystem http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/625421/Using-the-New... but as i am not a Linux man i can't test it but i think it is worth a try if some one can test it.

JonB wrote on Feb 25^th, 2013 at 7:02pm:

I'm guessing this may not be what you meant by interesting, but the following bit of news is interesting:

"Hans Thomas Reiser (born December 19, 1963) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer."

Problem with Reiser is real world performance. Or lack of. Yes, you'll find benchmarks that sing its praises. I'll tell you here and now, its not suited to a busy YaBB

To keep my old YaBB site up, I had to turn off ext3 journalling, and disable atime on the mount that held it...   ...and that was on a mirrored pair of disks, managed by a HP SMART Array P400 with 512Mb battery backed write cache, set to 75% write, 25% read (without journalling, need to get commits straight into the battery backed cache asap - and Linux does an OK-ish job of read caching itself).