I am not running such a large sytem, but since Maildirs require much
more metadata than mboxes (at least 3 directories and a file per
message), expect high inode usage. Create 3000 Maildirs
with a shell script and a few hundred messages per maildir, and see if
you run out. If you do, then estimate the number of inodes required for
such a system, and recreate your filesystems with that inode count. New
filesystems like ReiserFS and others do not suffer from such problems,
ReiserFS might be suitable depending on what your are doing.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:46:55AM -0700, Andy Bradford wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:43:06 EST, "Aaron Videtto" wrote:
>
> > I am going to have about 3000 users on my Courier and SqWebMail system. Has
> > anybody experienced or think that I might experience running our of Inodes?
>
> It's more likely that you'll run out of space long before you'll run
> out of inodes. It also depends on the block size that you use to
> create the filesystem, but generally, space runs out first.
>
> Andy
