18 Nov
2007
18 Nov
'07
3:27 a.m.
In my case, i have a 1.2TB filesystem which is currently holding 312GB of mail. According to the values present earlier, i can have up to 1268272861184/8192 (1.2TB/2^13) files/dirs. The magic number in my case is 154818464.
As i said, currently i have 312GB of used space on a single filesystem, which holds aprox 16000 user maildirs. The total number of files+folders on that filesystem is 7106571, which represents only 4.59% of the maximum possible number of files/folders. The current occupancy rate is 28%. Using this ratio as sample, i'd say that i'm pretty much safe ... as i'm sure you'll be.
What kind of hardware are you running this on? 16K email accounts?
Matt