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List:       ezmlm
Subject:    Re: Archive capacity?
From:       Mike Jackson <jacksonm () ssh ! com>
Date:       2001-04-24 19:43:10
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Mikko Hänninen wrote:
 
> Well, my archive dir for one list is already going at 161, so the answer
> is "no".  (At least, not at 100.)  Since it starts from "0" and not, for
> example, "00" or "000", I suspect it will keep going until infinity.  At
> some point you will just run out of either disk space or possibly your
> system's capacity to handle that many directory entries.  (ext2fs on
> Linux seems to slow down at something like 20k-30k entries, for example
> -- by that time you'll have 2-3 million messages in the archive, though)

This is a solaris box with ufs, but it's probably not that much
different. 
 
> The short answer is "there is no practical limit and you should stop
> worrying about it". :-)

kiitos :-)

Mike

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