Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:16:20 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion |
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On Mon, 2006-07-31 11:47:00 -0500, Dan Oglesby <doglesby@teleformix.com> 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 <reiser4@blinkenlights.ch> 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
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