18 Feb
2003
18 Feb
'03
9:34 p.m.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Daniel Mayfield Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:03 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: inodes/volumes/mildir/Courier IMAP
On Tuesday, Feb 18, 2003, at 15:45 US/Eastern, Lance R Bailey wrote:
dropped a decimal place, darn sliderule :)
yes, 7.8 mil / 50K students ~= 156 inodes.
but if this is an imap server, each student will only require a minimul amount of files.
With Maildir format each message is a unique file. If you were using Cyrus or UW IMAP this wouldn't stop you though.
I had the impression that Maildir was the only reasonably safe format over NFS, since there is no locking needed, etc.
Jordan