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.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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