begin quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 03:14:27PM -0700: > Lan Barnes wrote: > > ... which is one reason I decided to stay with mbox. > > Have you ever run out of i-nodes? Have you ever come *close* to running > out of i-nodes? > > Has anyone on this list? Other than as a test, of course, to see what > happens?
Yup. (But it was a long time ago.) > I have a system with 57 maildirs, and 344M worth of mail. > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 27G 7.7G 19G 29% /export > Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on > /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 3.3M 162k 3.1M 5% /export > > Yes, I have used 29% of my space, but only 5% of my i-nodes. Continuing > along this path, I will run out of space long before I run out of > i-nodes. Most likely. I use up to 20% of the inodes on my current system. (90% disk utilization) > Fear of running out of i-nodes is hardly a reason to not use maildirs. > This is (since we have to have at least one car analogy in any computer > related thread) akin to not driving somewhere because you are afraid of > being hit by a meteor. Especially if you keep track of your inode usage as well as disk space usage. I'd start it get worried if I used more than 75% of my inodes... > The observant will know that you cannot be hit by a meteor. A meteorite, > maybe, but not a meteor. I thought you could only be hit by a meteor. Once it hits the ground it's a meteorite, no? -Stewart "I suppose if it *bounces*..." Stremler
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