On Saturday, October 7, 2017 11:28:08 AM CEST Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/6/2017, 2:12:00 PM, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > I had a large partition with reiserfs. > > Running fsck always failed due to running out of memory. > > > > Partition was quite a bit larger than 2TB (around 6TB) and contained > > a huge (millions) amount of files, > but having an fsck become > > impossible with 16GB memory available was rather annoying. > > Ah, yes, I had a similar problem occasionally when a user would decide > to delete (or move to a different folder) a bunch (as many as tens of > thousands) of messages at once... Thunderbird would go non responsive, > and the server was brought to its knees. I'd have to kill their server > processes, and then the user would end up with a bunch of duplicate > messages in their maildirs. > > Very annoying.
Actually, I used to do this a lot using a webmail client (when I was still able to run squirrelmail without having to change back to an old PHP version) and never actually had any issues with this. Neither with reiserfs or ext4. I would put that down to either hardware or issues with the chosen IMAP- server. For reference: I have been using Cyrus for a very long time. -- Joost
