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On 10/15/04, Jerry Amundson <jerry_at_pbs.com> wrote: > Per ftp://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/Announcement.6.0.6 > "- Allow volumes to contain up to 512K files (previous limit was 256K)." the volumes can contain 512k numbers of files, but directory size is still limited to 256kB. (note the difference in units: number of files for a volume, vs the size in bytes of a directory inode.) a 256k directory will fit around 8000 files in coda. when you reach the directory size limit, the coda clients don't fail gracefully. on the next write to the directory (ie. a file is added), the client will crash with a logged assertion. > Another list member's suggestion was to modify the MTA to hash into > multiple sub-dirs. That won't happen, as it would also require changes > to POP3/IMAP servers, and I want to stick with the released code of my > mail software. if you're not going to hash your directories, my suggestion would be to not use IMAP and instruct your POP3 users to select the "delete mail from server" option. or, you could use quotas (i believe vpopmail provides some good tools) to keep the number of messages down to a few thousand per folder. -- steve simitzis : /sim' - i - jees/ pala : saturn5 productions www.steve.org : 415.282.9979 hath the daemon spawn no fire?Received on 2004-10-16 07:58:43