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> On 26/04/2013 00:15, grarpamp wrote:
> >> maildir format scale[s] quite well; pretty much the only
> >> limitation is storage I/O.
> > Depending on your FS and horsepower, anything over
> > 1000 x (n * 10) files in a directory can start to sink you
> > pretty quick. I've always wondered if there's a maildir split
> > specified out there that applications could utilize...
> > where n is your split width... tmp/n, new/n, cur/n.
> what about shifting this problem to the storage layer?
Faster disks don't solve algorithmic problems (problems related
to the number of files per directory).
Wietse
