On Tue, Aug 17 2021, Aurélien Aptel wrote: > Hi, > > How do you deal with a maildir with a billion file in it? I'm on ext4 > which should handle it but I can already feel some programs struggle > with a dir with that many entries (noticeable slow down).
That reminded me: http://be-n.com/spw/you-can-list-a-million-files-in-a-directory-but-not-with-ls.html that talks about 8 million files in a dir and already that requires special attention (i.e. readdir(3) slow, have to use getdents(2) syscall directly... > > I was thinking of archiving emails in yearly folders. How does notmuch > deal with moving emails around? Will I still be able to open them or > should I recreate the db? cannot remember how how notmuch detect renames -- so before doing so you should backup tags with notmuch-dump... Tomi > > If anyone is using lieer with gmail (https://github.com/gauteh/lieer) > will this trigger pulls of all the moved emails again? > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org > To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-le...@notmuchmail.org _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-le...@notmuchmail.org
