An Ext4 question...

[Eric Shubert]

Michael Butash wrote:
> 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.

Hehehe.

> 
> -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.
>>
> 


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-Eric 'shubes'