An Ext4 question...

[Michael Butash]

Sounds like you're reaching inode limitations or something, validate
with 'sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep "Free inode"'.  You can change
wtih tune2fs as well, at least with ext2/3, really haven't worked much
with ext4 to know.  

I still stick with reiser mostly, it's a killer filesystem.

-mb


On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 07:09 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Jim March wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > Does anybody know what happens when you stash a huge number of tiny
> > files in Ext4?  Does it store them efficiently the way ReiserFS does?
> > 
> > I ask because I'm running into limitations on mailbox sized with
> > Thunderbird and MBox, and was considering jumping to something based
> > on MailDir, which as far as I can tell has bigger mailbox limits than
> > MBox.  But given MailDir's approach of one file per message, block
> > size issues will get really wild'n'wooly unless Ext4 handles that
> > better.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Jim
> 
> I don't know about ext4, but ext3 handles fairly large maildirs just 
> fine. I'm using dovecot on a qmail-toaster server, and have no problem 
> with some maildir folders with 7k+ messages (number of messages, not 
> sizes). IIRC, ext3 has a limit of 32k or so files in a folder.
>