On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:43:54PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> MM> Just for the record, Sourceforge just hit the 16,000 lists
> MM> limit today and broke because ext2fs doesn't support more than
> MM> 32,000 links to a directory (archives/private had 32,000
> MM> archive dirs) I'm told freebsd's UFS has similar problems.
>
> Wow, neat! Not for you, but neat. :)
BTW, I ended up removing all the HTML archive directories since I've turned
off HTML archiving anyway.
That gives us a little while (more than six months if we are lucky :-D)
before we hit the 32,000 lists mark.
I'm thinking about an optional modification to mailman which only affects
list creation that creates the mailman/foo/l/li/listname dirs, and then
symlinks all this to mailman/foo/listname
Yeah, symlinks aren't great, but the advantage is that it requires no other
changes to the mailman code
> MM> Of course, that can be fixed with Residerfs/XFS/name your FS
> MM> here or archives/private/l/li/listname{,.mbox} but my point
> MM> was that if you create a directory for each attachment, you're
> MM> going to hit the 32,000 limit very quickly.
>
> Ah, so /that's/ why we have /home/groups/m/ma/mailman... :)
Yep :-)
(it's also to allow for splitting over more file servers and partitions and
dealing with amanda (backup software) very unfortunate limitation of being
unable to backup more than a tape's worth of data per partition)
> MM> As far as I know, most FS don't handle hundreds of thousands
> MM> of files in the same dir very well, but at least they handle
> MM> it.
>
> Don't worry, we're not talking about a directory for each attachment,
> but a directory for each message with an attachment. Hmm, maybe we
> /should/ worry! 32k messages with attachments sure doesn't seem all
> that many.
We'd hit that pretty quickly on SF.net :-)
Marc
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