Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

[J. Roeleveld]

On Saturday, October 7, 2017 11:28:08 AM CEST Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 10/6/2017, 2:12:00 PM, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
> > I had a large partition with reiserfs.
> > Running fsck always failed due to running out of memory.
> >
> > Partition was quite a bit larger than 2TB (around 6TB) and contained
> > a huge (millions) amount of files, > but having an fsck become
> > impossible with 16GB memory available was rather annoying.
>
> Ah, yes, I had a similar problem occasionally when a user would decide
> to delete (or move to a different folder) a bunch (as many as tens of
> thousands) of messages at once... Thunderbird would go non responsive,
> and the server was brought to its knees. I'd have to kill their server
> processes, and then the user would end up with a bunch of duplicate
> messages in their maildirs.
>
> Very annoying.

Actually, I used to do this a lot using a webmail client (when I was still 
able to run squirrelmail without having to change back to an old PHP version) 
and never actually had any issues with this.
Neither with reiserfs or ext4.

I would put that down to either hardware or issues with the chosen IMAP-
server. For reference: I have been using Cyrus for a very long time.

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Joost