Al Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I realize this is a little off-topic for this list, but there must be
>email administrators that have had to deal with this. We�re running
>Linux (Red Hat 6.2, kernel 2.2.14) with ext2 file system. How many
>inodes would be sufficient for that kind of setup?
You should think in terms of the average size of a mail message.
That's the number you'll need to provide to mkfs via "-i". If you
guess too high, you'll run out of inodes while there's still free space
on the filesystem. If you guess too low, you'll run out of space
before inodes. I try to err on the side of allocating a few too
inodes.
BTW, with SGI's xfs file system, which I'm now running under Linux,
inodes aren't preallocated, so you don't have to worry about this
issue. You also don't have to worry about 8-hour fsck's on a 200 GB
RAID 5 or poor performance on a directory with 10000 files. :-)
-Dave
