Renaud Allard wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: > >> Thinking about going from mbox to maildir. Started with mbox way back >> when but thinking about making the conversion. The main reason is that I >> use rsync for backups and when these huge mailboxes are touched I have >> to copy the whole thing. With maildir I only copy the files that change. >> >> So - my questions is - what's the easiest way to make this happan. I >> assume there are conversion utilities. I'm using Dovecot for IMAP. >> >> > > Here is a script I used to migrate my boxes from mbox to maildir: > http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ > > I also use dovecot and it has no problems to recognize the change from > mbox to maildir. > > >> Also - using Ext3 for the file system on a Raid 10 array. Backup server >> will run Ext3 Raid 1. Is the number of files in one directory going to >> be a problem? >> >> > > I don't know about ext3 but ufs on OpenBSD and XFS on linux 2.6 don't > have a real problem handling 20000+ files in one folder. My thought is > that reiserfs is probably a better choice for a maildir setup as it is > designed to perform well with thousands of small files. >
Well, I used to be a big reiser fan but ext3 has caught up in many ways and I'm leaning Ext3 because that's what I have and unless someone convinces me that it's definitely a mistake I think I'm sticking with it. Isn't there some new indexing feature that solves the big directory issue? -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
