I have a system with 5000+ Maildirs (15000+ with all dirs are counted).
With no such problem. Also, porting to ReiserFS is not recommended unless
you plan it well and test before hand, usually requiring a spare system of
equal mass.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Melomedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: Inodes
> 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
>
