Re: Writing a GNOME mail client.
- From: Nathan Clegg <nathan islanddata com>
- To: Warren Young <tangent cyberport com>
- Cc: Gnome List <gnome-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Writing a GNOME mail client.
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:01:20 -0700 (PDT)
Not everyone uses Linux. One of our 4 gig partitions on the Sun at my
office ran out of inodes when actual space was at 65% capacity. We deal
with a lot of small files and it can really be a problem.
> Inodes in Linux are 32 bits long. If your machine had 1024 users on it,
> they would each have to have over 4 million files before they overloaded
> an Ext2 filesystem's inode limit. Before you hit that, you hit other
> limits, like the fact that to exhaust the inodes, you'd have to fill a
> 4TB disk with 1-block files. (Assumes 1024 bytes per block. For 4096
> byte blocks, you'd need a 16TB disk before you'd hit the wall.)
>
> On a typical system with a 9GB disk for the users and around 1000 users
> (~9MB for each user), each user would be able to have about 10,000
> files. That assumes that all files are under 1K each. If that's not
> the case, you'd add another disk (and thus several million more inodes)
> before you ran out of inodes.
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Nathan Clegg
nathan@islanddata.com
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