Mario Antonio Garcia wrote: > From a performance perspective: > Which Directory layout is better: > 1. All mailboxes are stored in a single directory and prefixed with a dot > or > 2. Maildirs using physical directories, such as: Maildir/folder/subfolder/ > > It looks like the second option -- File Sytem Layout (LAYOUT=fs) -- > could spread the load in a better way ...... > I do not expect a user reaching maximum number of subfolders in linux , > but what about those heavy users with a lot of sub-folders: > Is there a significant performance gain by choosing a specific > Directory Layout ... > > Any Comments? >
I use a filesystem that handles this better than ext3 such as XFS or Reiser. ~Seth
