Kontact Touch, N9, large account

[Felix Wolfsteller]

As an idea, see `df -i` to access the number of free inodes.
--felix

Am Donnerstag 07 Juni 2012 09:59:27 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:
> Am Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2012 09:06:10 schrieb Volker Krause:
> > On Wednesday 06 June 2012 15:18:22 Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300819
> > >
> > > Turns out this was cased by a limitation of the MyDocs filesystem
> > > it can only create 32762 files in on directory.
> >
> > is this a FAT limitation?
>
> I don't know. My reading of the Wikipedia pages was unconclusive.
> All I know is: I cannot create new files with "touch x" in this directory,
> while I can in other directories on the partition and the mount type
> is vfat. I guess a number of filesystems will have limitations for the
> number of files in one directory, so this could become a general thing to
> watch out for with large accounts.
>
> > > So I guess I should set the
> > >   SizeThreshold = 8192
> > > configuration variable in  .config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc
> > > the default is 4096. I should probably add this to the wiki as well.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what out looking it up:
> > > Can I change the value in a running installation?
> >
> > Yes, it will only affect newly generated files though, there is no
> > support for migration between db and file system.
> >
> > > How would I get rid of the small files then, just stopping
> > > akonadiserver and deleting them?
> >
> > There is no support for doing this at the moment, and there is no
> > guarantee that things will recover automatically from randomly deleted
> > files. If it does, there is a good chance it will be extremely
> > inefficient (requesting the missing parts one by one, rather than in
> > bulk).
>
> Thanks Volker for the assessment, this saves a lot of time on my end!
> I think I either try and test if there is recovery or I may
> see if I can renew the cache for some folders somehow.
> Maybe by switching off some folders by local subscriptions.
>
> Bernhard