27 Oct
2001
27 Oct
'01
2:43 a.m.
"MM" == Marc MERLIN <marc_news@valinux.com> writes:
MM> Just for the record, Sourceforge just hit the 16,000 lists
MM> limit today and broke because ext2fs doesn't support more than
MM> 32,000 links to a directory (archives/private had 32,000
MM> archive dirs) I'm told freebsd's UFS has similar problems.
Wow, neat! Not for you, but neat. :)
MM> Of course, that can be fixed with Residerfs/XFS/name your FS
MM> here or archives/private/l/li/listname{,.mbox} but my point
MM> was that if you create a directory for each attachment, you're
MM> going to hit the 32,000 limit very quickly.
Ah, so /that's/ why we have /home/groups/m/ma/mailman... :)
MM> As far as I know, most FS don't handle hundreds of thousands
MM> of files in the same dir very well, but at least they handle
MM> it.
Don't worry, we're not talking about a directory for each attachment, but a directory for each message with an attachment. Hmm, maybe we /should/ worry! 32k messages with attachments sure doesn't seem all that many.
Hmm, have to think about it. -Barry