On Thursday 01 February 2007 14:55, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 01/02/07, Tzahi Fadida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:19, Yehoshua (Shay) O'Hayon Suchar wrote:
> > > Tzahi Fadida said:
> > > > I tried 7z but after about 12% of archiving it gives a weird error:
> > > > "Error:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > System error:
> > > > Too many open files "
> > > > (and this file was never opened :).
> > > >
> > > > What can i do?
> > >
> > > Could be that the error has something to do with the limit of file
> > > descriptors in the system?
> >
> > Sorry for not responding earlier. My system crashed and i had to restore
> > from backups.
> > I did not really understand this. Are you saying there is a limit on the
> > number of files i can tar gz?
> > I also make backups of my emails and there can be as much as a million
> > files, pherhaps more because of the mbox style(i think) of holding mails.
>
> Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but so far as I know mbox
> saves all the emails of a particular folder in one big file. So if you
> have 200 emails in 5 folders, then you will have 5 mbox files.
>
> Kmail has another two or three files per mbox folder, so you really
> will have 5*n folders, but you get the idea. It's not 200*n.

Sorry, of course maildir.

>
> Dotan Cohen
>
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