Bill Cole wrote:
At 6:23 PM +0300 11/17/07, Nikolay Shopik wrote:
On 17.11.2007 18:11, Nikolay Shopik wrote:
On 17.11.2007 17:56, Bazy wrote:
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Yes, that's what I meant. Run out of inodes on that partition.
I don't think so. If /V/ is the volume size in bytes, then the default number of inodes is given by /V//2^13 That's more than enough.
should look like this - V/2^13
Another way to express that: if your average file size is less than 8KB, you will run out of inodes before you run out of disk space. This would present a real risk for file-per-message mailstores, since most email messages are significantly smaller that 8KB.
The bytes per inode value is something that can be selected when creating a filesystem, and different OS's and filesystems have different defaults. Whether a particular filesystem is headed for inode exhaustion really depends on how it was created and all of its contents.
I understand... I should read mode about this.
I had dovecot with mbox and mbox is not very fast... my hard drive would seeeeeeek before it could load a mail. I only use imap. Not to mention when i search all my mail for something in the body of the message. I use mozilla's thunderbird.
Yes, maybe 95% of the mail is less then 8KB, but as df -i said, I have a lot of free inodes. :)
[root:pts/0][~]# df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda1 19281504 140795 19140709 1% /
Thank you for all your answers!