Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:02:52 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: "Eric W. Bates" <ericx@vineyard.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: consequences of migrating to maildir storage system Message-ID: <20031016130105.J83287@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <0ac901c393ea$4bc1ac80$68c311cc@fortiva> References: <0ac901c393ea$4bc1ac80$68c311cc@fortiva>
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Eric W. Bates wrote: > Anyone have unfortunate experiences as a consequence of converting mail > storage from flat file (mbox) to maildir? I'm concerned that the > increase in the number of files might cause problems with replication > (we use rsync), backup or even just running out of inodes. k, not sure what maildir is, but we run cyrus-imapd over here, which does one file per mail message, and have 60 jail'd environments running on a machine, each with their own mail spools, and each running an average of 2 domains per, with whatever mailboxes each they've decided to create ... and inodes are looking like the following right now: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/da0s1h 119837208 57834436 52415796 52% 5726132 9322570 38% /vm
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