Chris Laif wrote:
On 10/11/07, Daniel Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Timo,
Would there be any sense in giving Dovecot the option to split folders
into multiple subfolders when they reached a specified size (probably
message count) limit?
Many modern file systems offer the possibility to use optimized
directory indexes. Listing these directories scales very well.
Splitting files into subdirectories would have a negative effect: You
have to walk through every directory and merge all file names into one
data table.
Chris
That is true. But it still leaves the motivation of being able to store
rarely accessed 'old' mail in a separate, perhaps remote, location which
I can see as valuable. Even though storage is pretty cheap, expensive
disks...are not cheap =)
