hello qmail-ldap users, I run a free email server using qmail-ldap and store messages in a directory structure like this:
/maildirs/domain.com/user as with everything that is free, the amount of users is growing day by day :) So I am wondering what happens if there are 1000 users in the system. There will be 1000 directories (maildirs) in domain.com. That sounds kind of OK. what if there are 100k users? I guess it would slow down filesystem quite a bit, no? Maybe it would be a good idea to split the directory into something like: /maildirs/domain.com/001/userxxxx /maildirs/domain.com/001/userxxxy /maildirs/domain.com/001/userxxxz /maildirs/domain.com/001/.... /maildirs/domain.com/002/userxxx /maildirs/domain.com/002/.... ... /maildirs/domain.com/XXX/userxxx The question is: how many maildirs per directory is a good idea? thanks, Karolis
