On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 02:05, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
the mailbox folders should only be limited by the system. ie, mbox files will probably cap at 2 gig, Maildir is limited only by the number of files that can be in a directory (is there a limit?)
It is a filesystem limit. For example, Reiserfs can theoretically have up to 2^31 files per directory according to http://www.namesys.com/faq.html#reiserfsspecs (with the caveat that R5 hashes only scale up to about one million files per directory and that the slower Tea hash must be used upward from that). Ext2/3 are more limited according to http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/14/2003/09/1/42929 : "the bookkeeping techniques of Ext2, such as its linked-list directory implementation, do not scale well to large file systems (there is an upper limit of 32,768 subdirectories in a single directory, and a "soft" upper limit of 10,000-15,000 files in a single directory)"
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