Lan Barnes wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:11:27PM -0700, Todd Walton wrote: > > On 6/21/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wow! Gotta believe that was developer on Reiserfs or some other infinite > > > i-node fs. > > > > Yeah, but how many inodes are consumed per mailbox with another > > program using maildir?
One per message, plus four: one for the maildir itself, and one each for the tmp, cur, and new directories in the maildir. Some implementation may have other files in the maildir directory > ... which is one reason I decided to stay with mbox. Have you ever run out of i-nodes? Have you ever come *close* to running out of i-nodes? Has anyone on this list? Other than as a test, of course, to see what happens? I have a system with 57 maildirs, and 344M worth of mail. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 27G 7.7G 19G 29% /export Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 3.3M 162k 3.1M 5% /export Yes, I have used 29% of my space, but only 5% of my i-nodes. Continuing along this path, I will run out of space long before I run out of i-nodes. Fear of running out of i-nodes is hardly a reason to not use maildirs. This is (since we have to have at least one car analogy in any computer related thread) akin to not driving somewhere because you are afraid of being hit by a meteor. -john The observant will know that you cannot be hit by a meteor. A meteorite, maybe, but not a meteor. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
