-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:06:24PM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:48:04AM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: > >> Mario Antonio Garcia wrote: > >>> From a performance perspective: > > > > [...] > > > >> I use a filesystem that handles this better than ext3 such as XFS or > >> Reiser. > > > > Ext3 should be fine for huge directories [...]
> Not sure about maildir, but I experienced horrible performance with ext3 > on a very busy postfix queue a few years ago [...] Thanks, Seth for this info. Definitely worth keeping in mind. [...] Yeah, I know Reiser should have better performance with [...] Hm. I think Reiser is for those "make sure you know what aou're doing". I have myself some partitions on Reiser, but I'm not so sure I would base critical stuff on it. I'm too maxed-out at the moment to go trolling through the kernel change logs to see whether anything might have changed in dir_index in the last three years, but it might be interesting. Thanks, regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFKTFi4Bcgs9XrR2kYRArk5AKCB6WdEL/+uR2S3fQYM8CGop17NuACffgbH s+IpuDtKbl1MqZWU6GeGhYE= =IJm2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
