[ale] reiserfs question

[dcorbin at machturtle.com (David Corbin)]

Cory T. Echols wrote:

>On 11/09, David Corbin wrote:
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>>I've set up a server to be a mail server.  For the first time, and I'm 
>>using "maildir" to store mail, and resierfs for improved reliability.  
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>>(I get hundreds of mail messages a day, and "archive" an awful lot of
>>them), I wanted to ask if resiserfs has any type of limit on the
>>number of files it can handle.
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>This isn't really related to your filesystem selection, but you might
>consider using a different format for your mail archives. 
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>If you're not
>accessing them frequently, the benefits of using Maildir are reduced.
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I may not access the message frequently, but I certainly access the 
folder they're in.  I used "archive" in the sense of "keep for ever", 
not in the sense of "compress and hide away in a musty basement." My 
decision to  go with Maildir was the result of switching IMAP servers 
more than anything else, but I think mailDir makes a lot of sense to me. 
 (For the record, I've got 381MB of mail right now)

>I basically do the same thing you do on an ext3 filesystem.  At the end
>of every month, I move old messages into gzipped mbox files.  It works
>great, and mutt has builtin support for compressed mailboxes.
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