Hi! I am running a mail server that stores email on a 270G reiserfs partition in a Maildir format (one file per email message)
I have an account that is a kind of a tap and receives tremendous amounts of email. In just over 2 months I have 233k email messages, ie. 233k files in one directory! Now, the obvious thing is that accessing that directory takes some time, I understand that, but I am having other problems with it. Since creating that account I started having strange problems like: - files impossible to delete/read/rename (well actually I found one like that) - reiserfsck --fix-fixable told me that it found some nodes that need --rebuild-tree - I had an reiserfs related oops, unfortunately It did not save to the log. So my question is, are there any special considerations for reiserfs with huge directories? I am running 2.6.16.11, the partition is mounted exec,dev,suid, rw,noatime,notail,iocharset=iso8859-2 It is qmail and courier-imap that operate on these maildir accounts. Best regards, Maciej
