On Wed, February 17, 2016 1:13 pm, Chris wrote: > is it possible to save 5000 folders in the same directory (ext4 FS) > without any performance issues? > > It's a Maildir structure with a .-separator, e.g. > > /var/vmail/public/folder1 > /var/vmail/public/folder1.subfolder1a > /var/vmail/public/folder1.subfolder1b
A few months ago, I cleaned out an old POP3 by downloading several hundred thousand email messages to a single maildir structure, in a marathon which lasted several days. RH
