Words by Zhang Huangbin [Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:00:45AM +0800]: > Hi, all. > > Normally, i use 'domain.ltd/username/Maildir' as users' maildir path, if > i change them to hash style, e.g. 'A0/B0/domain.ltd/C0/D0/username/Maildir', > will it speed up the index operation for MDA? If we have 10000 users, > which maildir path style will improve performance? >
Depends on which filesystem you put the maildirs on. For instance with ext* you'll get a performance boost. Anyway it's always a good arquitecture decision to hash it. -- Jose Celestino | http://japc.uncovering.org/files/japc-pgpkey.asc ---------------------------------------------------------------- "One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh." -- Robert A. Heinlein
