On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:47:51 +0700, Erry Rahmawan <[log in to unmask]> said: > I wanna ask about limitation in archiving list ? Based on our > experience, filesystem in Unix cannot bigger than 32K files in one > directory. Well, some Unix variants have this restriction. However, even those that have no real limit start showing performance issues with more than 3K or so files in a single directory. > Listserv store archive file & file index of archive in one directory, so I think there must some limitation for that, especially for > maximum number of archive. Is it true ? Yes, but traditionally, the mailing list archives are kept on a per-week or per-month basis. On a per-week basis, the list would have to have been started in the year 1386, and with monthly notebooks, in 668 BC, before you would have gotten to 32K files. > And if it is true, is there any solution to break-up the limitation ??? Don't use 'Notebook=Separate'. Use single, yearly, monthly, or weekly instead. Use a separate directory for each list. For instance, we have: for sas-l: notebook = yes,/home/listserv/notebooks/sas-l,weekly for spd-l: notebook = yes,/home/listserv/notebooks/spd-l,monthly for inter-l: notebook = yes,/home/listserv/notebooks/inter-l,weekly Alternatively, go through and delete old/un-needed archives on a regular basis. We have some 4,100+ lists on my server (LSoft lists it as #2 in the world for number of lists), of which 2,887 have notebooks totalling 30,500 files and 3.6G of disk space used. Of those, the *maximum* number of files in one directory is 356. Another directory has 259, and 5 lists have between 100 and 150 files. If one of the largest Listserv sites in the world hasn't hit 32K files for *all* its notebooks put together, I don't think you need to worry about hitting the limit on a per-notebook basis... -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech