On Tue 08 Oct 2024 at 06:37:43 (+0200), [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 08:44:44PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Mon Oct 7, 2024 at 9:37 AM BST, Michel Verdier wrote: > > > Do you mean inodes expensive ? Which filesystem do you used ? > > > > It was 18 years ago so I can't remember that clearly, but I think it was > > a mixture of inodes expense and an enlarged amount of CPU time with the > > file churn (mails moved from new to cur, and later to a separate archive > > Maildir, that sort of thing). It was probably ext3 given the time. > > Note that the transition to Ext4 must have been around 2006, making > huge directories viable (HTree). So perhaps this is a factor too.
Perhaps you're on the inside track with respect to Debian. I didn't use ext4 at all until it was added to the squeeze installer (Feb 2011), and only when I was sure that a lenny ext3 installation would not need to read a file from a squeeze-written ext4 partition on the same machine. I think I eliminated my last ext3 partition at the end of 2014. (I was extremely conservative with my laptop during part of 2013/2014, as I was totally reliant on this sole machine to be trouble-free.) Cheers, David.
