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Email can use up inodes quickly. A thousand users with a thousand emails each is a million files in Maildir. Plus three directories (cur/new/tmp) for each mail
by mike-cardwell 15y ago
Email can use up inodes quickly. A thousand users with a thousand emails each is a million files in Maildir. Plus three directories (cur/new/tmp) for each mail folder.
- JoshTriplett 15y agoFolders seem unlikely to use up a significant number of inodes compared to the messages. As for messages, how many users do you expect to serve from each mail server? I think you'll hit the limits of whatever service you want to provide before you hit the limit of inodes in your mail store. (Or you could always encrypt each email and throw it at an object storage system similar to S3. ;) )