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 around on disk, and so I suspect the files will continue to take >> up space in the original directory even if I move them. > > if you copy them to the new folder, are you talking about a filesystem copy, or a copy via imap? > delete them from the old folder, and expunge them, then the directory > slots will be freed up. I don't think that ext3 will actually shrink > the directory, but it will re-use these available slots for new files. [deleted stuff on XFS] Yes, I noticed XFS seems to have quite a few people with good experiences. That's another one I might consider. I was a little reluctant because I've also seen (not in this list) people saying it ate their data. Of course, a lot of people said that about reiserfs too, and probably every other file system... Ross ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
