On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 08:44:44PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon Oct 7, 2024 at 9:37 AM BST, Michel Verdier wrote: > > Do you mean inodes expensive ? Which filesystem do you used ? > > It was 18 years ago so I can't remember that clearly, but I think it was > a mixture of inodes expense and an enlarged amount of CPU time with the > file churn (mails moved from new to cur, and later to a separate archive > Maildir, that sort of thing). It was probably ext3 given the time.
Note that the transition to Ext4 must have been around 2006, making huge directories viable (HTree). So perhaps this is a factor too. Cheers -- t
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