Re: [Evolution] Message Storage Limits

["J. Kelley Jernigan" <hovercraft nc rr com>]

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 05:39, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote:
> 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)"


I use Ext3 so that directory limit could be a problem

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