On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 12:38, Peter Stuge wrote: > > Andy - any ideas for a new mailbox format? > > I honestly think maildir is good enough. I'm willing to take a performance > hit for reliability, I do however agree ext2 may not be the best filesystem > to handle huge maildirs. > > Have people tested different filesystems for this specific usage? > > Maybe it's a new filesystem we need? > > I don't know, but am curious.
FYI ext2/ext3 have indexed dir entries in 2.6.x, so HUGE directories should not be problem. Maybe somebody could try it and compare ext2 with and w/o indexed directory ;-) O. -- Ondřej Surý - co/CTO --------------------------------------------------- Globe Internet, s.r.o. - http://globe.cz Pláničkova 1, 162 00 Praha 6 - http://mapa.globe.cz Tel.: +420 2 35365000 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
