On Jan 22, 2021, at 10:05 AM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2021, at 09:07, Ron Garret (gmail) <ron.gar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Jan 22, 2021, at 8:02 AM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: >> >>> On 21 Jan 2021, at 18:08, MRob <mro...@insiberia.net> wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> I just found user who has single folder (standard maildir format) that >>>> filled with over 8mil files and 800GB in the /tmp subdirectory of that >>>> folder: >>> >>> Are they real files or hard links? >> >> How would you distinguish a hard link from a “real file”? > > ls -l will show the number of hard links to a file in the first column after > the permissions (or it showed the number off files (including . and ..) > inside a directory if it's a directory entry). Ah, I misinterpreted the question then. You meant (I presume) “Are they 8 million distinct files, or 8 million hard links to a (much) smaller number of actual underlying inodes.” So then my next question is (and I’m not intending to challenge you here, I’m just trying to get a better understanding of how dovecot works under the hood): where would these hard links come from? What does dovecot use hard links for? rg
