[Imap-uw] Mix filesize

[nlin]

Hmm...I guess it depends on how you think of it.  If I had 1GB inbox with 10MB dataroll, 
that's 100 files that get touched every day, with a 20MB data roll, that's 50 files.  If 
I'm going to be making backups anyway on all these files, then I would rather have bigger 
file sizes so that I don't have such large number of files in each directory.

Or, most people update messages that are more recent. If I aggregated them into one file, 
then 1 or 2 files are back'ed up each day.  vs a larger number of files if I had smaller 
dataroll.

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Dan Pritts wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:32:24PM -0700, nlin wrote:
>> We defined our MIXDATAROLL to be 20MB and it converts correctly using 
>> mixcvt.  We're running 2006h.
>>
>> As for what size, it's purely guessing on my end.  I think it really 
>> depends on how your users manage their INBOXes, the size of their mailboxes 
>> in general, and how you do backup. I started out w/ 10MB.  But looking at 
>>  some of our biggest users (1GB inboxes), it seemed that most of the .mix 
>> files get touched each day, or at least several files.  Given the large 
>> number of files with a 10MB dataroll, I up'ed it to 20MB instead.  Haven't 
>> had time to look at it again to see if I need to up it a 3rd time....
>>
> 
> i'm confused - if most of your 10M files are getting touched every
> day, why didn't you DECREASE the size?  Presuming your goal is to 
> not back up all the files every night.
> 
> danno
>