On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:43:54PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
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. :)
BTW, I ended up removing all the HTML archive directories since I've turned off HTML archiving anyway. That gives us a little while (more than six months if we are lucky :-D) before we hit the 32,000 lists mark.
I'm thinking about an optional modification to mailman which only affects list creation that creates the mailman/foo/l/li/listname dirs, and then symlinks all this to mailman/foo/listname Yeah, symlinks aren't great, but the advantage is that it requires no other changes to the mailman code
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... :)
Yep :-) (it's also to allow for splitting over more file servers and partitions and dealing with amanda (backup software) very unfortunate limitation of being unable to backup more than a tape's worth of data per partition)
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.
We'd hit that pretty quickly on SF.net :-)
Marc
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