On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Stewart Dean wrote:
Plus I have to wonder what the realities of moving from 1) mbox with one
monster file to 2) maildir with inodes beyond measure and its effect on
backup.
With reasonable average email usage patterns (averaging >=4K/message --
not hard to do with the occasional 5-10MB message), you'll run out of disk
space long before running out of inodes on any reasonable filesystem. And,
I'd think many tiny files would scale better for backup software.
(Depending on how 'dumb' the software doing it is, I'd think "minor change
to one huge file" would be less-efficiently stored than "new tiny file" or
"deleted tiny file".)
[...]
Remember: when you (the sysadmin) do things really, really right, nobody
knows you've done anything. Sounds like a 0 to negative sum game......
Amen to that. Especially when it comes to something like email, where even
the slightest interruption is intolerable.
But, by the same token, it sounds like your experience with BB+mbox is
already moving you toward the negative (secretaries already noticed
something wrong). Might be worth the effort to try it out with the BB
users.
Best,
Ben
