begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:38:44PM -0700: [snip] > I have been using Maildir on ext3 for years with hundreds of thousands > of not millions of messages in one filesystem and have never once run
Millions? I'd like to see that. Verify please: find ~/Mail -type f | wc -l > out of inodes. My personal mail server has a ton of mail on it and only > 13% of the inodes are used. I think the days of having to worry about > inodes are long gone. This is mostly due to the size of modern disks > which are huge. I think that the default allocation is heavy on the inodes, and default block sizes have gone up, emphasizing the discrepency. Nobody wants to see "out of inodes" with 60% of the disk "free", but "out of data blocks" with 60% of the inodes free is peachy-keen. -- I haven't run "df -i" in a long time... 75% data blocks :: 20% inodes. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
