On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:40:47AM +0000, coda_at_bobich.net wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, u+codalist-p4pg_at_chalmers.se wrote:
>>> Right, OK. The problem is that I'm hoping to use Coda for home directories
>>> which contain anything from thousands of small files (Maildirs) to dozens
>>
>> A word of caution, maildirs can by easily filled by a mail storm
>> or a busy mailing list, and break (Coda dirs are limited to 256K, see Wiki)
>
> I just looked at that and initially thought that 256K files wouldn't be a 
> problem. Then I re-read it and the Wiki page on limitations, and the  
> implication is that this means between 2048 and 4096 files. This seems  
> rather low. Is there a work-around?

Not really, besides frequently archiving high-traffic mailboxes. I still
keep linux-kernel in a local disk folder, all others live in Coda. Some
rotate every month, others about once every three months. I archive each
months worth of email from a maildir folder into a compressed mailbox
file. So I get the concurrent lockless access properties for recent
email, but compact storage for older mails where it is not as likely to
get write-write conflicts.

A secondary benefit is that this way I can keep all email hoarded in my
client cache and as such can access it when disconnected. Of course the
sending replies part of email doesn't work during disconnection.

Jan