From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 16: 8:25 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 16:08:23 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe9.pav1.hotmail.com [64.4.30.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A5F537B400 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:08:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:08:22 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [66.30.117.253] From: "Scott M. Lewandowski" To: Subject: Minimum filesystem block size Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:02:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Dec 2000 00:08:22.0442 (UTC) FILETIME=[CCB990A0:01C0694F] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am thinking of deploying qmail to take advantage of the Maildir format that it offers. However, it seems like this will be very wasteful of space. According to the newfs man page, the minimum disk block size is 4096 bytes. Since Maildir stores each new mail message, as well as all archived mail messages, as separate files, this means that each email will take up 4K of disk space, even though my average mail message is only ~1K. Is this correct, or am I missing something? Is there any way to use a smaller block size on a new filesystem? Thanks for any comments. Scott Lewandowski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message