Re: too many files in a directory

2010-11-05 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Ross Boylan wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > On 11/5/2010 6:18 PM, David Lang wrote: >>> I have a narrow question and a broader one. Narrowly, if I create some >>> other folders and move some of the messages into them, will it help? My >>> understanding is that cyrus tries t

Re: too many files in a directory

2010-11-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for your reply. On 11/5/2010 6:18 PM, David Lang wrote: >> I have a narrow question and a broader one. Narrowly, if I create some >> other folders and move some of the messages into them, will it help? My >> understanding is that cyrus tries to avoid copying or moving message >> files arou

Re: too many files in a directory

2010-11-05 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Ross Boylan wrote: > My Cyrus 2.2.13 server (Debian stable) is running on an ext3 > filesystem. One folder contains so many files that it keeps exceeding > the limit ext3 can cope with (or at least, more than the directory index > can handle). I've been able to recover with e