Anton Aylward wrote:
On 14/04/17 08:41 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Funny. I remember the complains with Exchange having a 2 GiB limit per mailbox, and here we go with a 50 MB default limit.
It's probably just an old default Postfix setting. My guess is it's not used much anymore - people set it to 0, and then leave the mailbox/-dir to be governed by quotas in dovecot.
And it has to load the entire mbox in RAM, to just append a new mail at the end?
I wouldn't think so, but we use maildirs.
And that's why I hate the ext[234] family of file systems.
Not sure I get the connection with Carlo's mailbox sizes?
You either run out of file blocks while there's still space devoted to i-nodes or you run out of i-nodes while there's still space available.
The whole idea of pre-provisioing i-nodes, the idea of devoting a fixed amount space to i-nodes and a fixed amut of space to data blocks is right out of the of the original UNIX of the 1970s.
The real B-tree file systems, notably ReiserFS, XFS, BtrFS, don't have this limitation. They allocate space as needed.
We've been using JFS for 14-15 years, since around 2003 I think. Not that I have any issue with ext4, I use for root file systems too occasionally. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.8°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org