On Mon, 2006-07-31 11:47:00 -0500, Dan Oglesby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 18:22 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-07-31 17:59:58 +0200, Adrian Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A colleague of mine happened to create a ~300gb filesystem and started > > > to migrate Mailboxes (Maildir-style format = many small files (1-3kb)) > > > to the new LUN. At about 70% the filesystem ran out of inodes; Not a > > So preparation work wasn't done. > > As someone who is currently planning to migrate ~100GB of stored mail to > the Maildirs format, it was pretty clear early on that EXT3 would not > cut it (from past and current experiences), and not just for the sake of > calculating inodes.
Uh? Where did you face a problem there? With maildir, you shouldn't face any problems IMO. Even users with zillions of mails should work properly with the dir_index stuff: tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/hdXX or alternatively (to start that for already existing directories): e2fsck -fD /dev/hdXX Of course, you'll always face a problem with lots of files in one directory at getdents() time (eg. opendir()/readdir()/closedir()), but this is a common limit for all filesystems. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-172-7608481 Signature of: Alles wird gut! ...und heute wirds schon ein bißchen besser. the second :
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