On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:40:47AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Right, OK. The problem is that I'm hoping to use Coda for home directories >>> which contain anything from thousands of small files (Maildirs) to dozens >> >> A word of caution, maildirs can by easily filled by a mail storm >> or a busy mailing list, and break (Coda dirs are limited to 256K, see Wiki) > > I just looked at that and initially thought that 256K files wouldn't be a > problem. Then I re-read it and the Wiki page on limitations, and the > implication is that this means between 2048 and 4096 files. This seems > rather low. Is there a work-around?
Not really, besides frequently archiving high-traffic mailboxes. I still keep linux-kernel in a local disk folder, all others live in Coda. Some rotate every month, others about once every three months. I archive each months worth of email from a maildir folder into a compressed mailbox file. So I get the concurrent lockless access properties for recent email, but compact storage for older mails where it is not as likely to get write-write conflicts. A secondary benefit is that this way I can keep all email hoarded in my client cache and as such can access it when disconnected. Of course the sending replies part of email doesn't work during disconnection. Jan
