consequences of migrating to maildir storage system

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Eric W. Bates wrote:

> Anyone have unfortunate experiences as a consequence of converting mail
> storage from flat file (mbox) to maildir? I'm concerned that the
> increase in the number of files might cause problems with replication
> (we use rsync), backup or even just running out of inodes.

k, not sure what maildir is, but we run cyrus-imapd over here, which does
one file per mail message, and have 60 jail'd environments running on a
machine, each with their own mail spools, and each running an average of 2
domains per, with whatever mailboxes each they've decided to create ...
and inodes are looking like the following right now:

Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity iused   ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1h 119837208 57834436 52415796    52% 5726132 9322570   38%   /vm