24 Sep
2005
24 Sep
'05
8:32 p.m.
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Cor Bosman wrote:
inodes only use kernel memory when the file is accessed. in this respect there is no difference in the memory usage between reiserfs or ext3 or any other filesystem. think about the case of network filesystems for example.
i think we're agreeing aren't we?
the only reason i care about kernel memory usage is that once you start scaling to 1000s of simultaneous users kernel memory starts becoming scarce... with maildir it happens a lot faster than with mailbox.
Anyone that scales to thousands of simultaneous users should be able to afford a few extra servers and has a server architecture where adding servers is easy.
in practice it's more than a "few extra".
-dean