On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 05:39, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 02:05, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > the mailbox folders should only be limited by the system. ie, mbox files > > will probably cap at 2 gig, Maildir is limited only by the number of > > files that can be in a directory (is there a limit?) > > It is a filesystem limit. For example, Reiserfs can theoretically have > up to 2^31 files per directory according to > http://www.namesys.com/faq.html#reiserfsspecs (with the caveat that R5 > hashes only scale up to about one million files per directory and that > the slower Tea hash must be used upward from that). > > Ext2/3 are more limited according to > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/14/2003/09/1/42929 : > "the bookkeeping techniques of Ext2, such as its linked-list directory > implementation, do not scale well to large file systems (there is an > upper limit of 32,768 subdirectories in a single directory, and a "soft" > upper limit of 10,000-15,000 files in a single directory)" >
I use Ext3 so that directory limit could be a problem -- J. Kelley Jernigan The Hovercrafters Resource http://www.hovercraftersresource.com - Registered Linux User # 282143 Mandrake 9.1 - "If what you believe does not reflect truth, then what you feel does not reflect reality." Dr. Neil Anderson _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
