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 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? copy via imap. you really don't want to go mucking around on the filesystem under cyrus. Reserv that for emergancies ;-) >> 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... the other thing to look at is _when_it ate their data. like linux, most filesystems are under continuing development. If XFS ate their data 5+ years ago, so many improvements have gone in thatI wouldn't care. If they say it ate their data last year, I would be worried. David Lang ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
