Henrique Pantarotto wrote:
>
> Now I have another question that is disturbing me. ;-)
>
> I'm writing a HotMail-alike kinda service. I'll have many users (the
> maximum will be 15,000 I think). Messages are stored in the /Maildir
> format, which means that every single message is stored in a diferente
> file. So, if the user has 100 messages, he'll have in his mailbox 100 files.
>
> Someone told me that every file (even a small one) takes 1k (or even 4k).
> Is this true?
Yep, for the current incarnation of ext2fs it is. You have the option of
1k, 2k or 4k blocs (much like FAT clusters for DOS/Win people).
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