[ale] reiserfs question

[Cory T. Echols]

On 11/09, David Corbin wrote:
> I've set up a server to be a mail server.  For the first time, and I'm 
> using "maildir" to store mail, and resierfs for improved reliability.  

> (I get hundreds of mail messages a day, and "archive" an awful lot of
> them), I wanted to ask if resiserfs has any type of limit on the
> number of files it can handle.

This isn't really related to your filesystem selection, but you might
consider using a different format for your mail archives.  If you're not
accessing them frequently, the benefits of using Maildir are reduced.

I basically do the same thing you do on an ext3 filesystem.  At the end
of every month, I move old messages into gzipped mbox files.  It works
great, and mutt has builtin support for compressed mailboxes.

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