From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 09:03:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4207716A4B3 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:03:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u173n10.eastlink.ca [24.224.173.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757E243FEA for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:03:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DA34234014; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:02:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71E133C2D; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:02:52 -0300 (ADT) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:02:52 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Eric W. Bates" In-Reply-To: <0ac901c393ea$4bc1ac80$68c311cc@fortiva> Message-ID: <20031016130105.J83287@ganymede.hub.org> References: <0ac901c393ea$4bc1ac80$68c311cc@fortiva> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: consequences of migrating to maildir storage system X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:03:44 -0000 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