On 8.11.2011, at 16.19, Peer Heinlein wrote: > Having > 10 TByte mailstore filesystem-checks takes too much time. > > At the moment we have four different partitions, but I don't like to set > symlinks or LDAP-flags to sort customers and their domains to there > individual mount-point. I'd like to work with mdbox:/mail/%d/%n to calculate > the path automatically.
Why not symlinks? You could use e.g. /mail/%16Hu/%d/%n as part of the path which would give you one hex letter when hashing the username (0..9, a..f). So then you could create symlinks like: /mail/0 -> /storage1 /mail/1 -> /storage2 ..etc.. > I'm very interested in the feature "alternative mailstore" with mdbox, > because that makes it very easy to use at least TWO filesystems without any > tricky configuration. > > I think I'd love to have <n> alternative mailstores. Why does dbox doesn't > look for its m.*-files in more then two directorys? Sure, looking in 4 > directorys would lead to four disc operations, but maybe it could be very > helpful. The current implementation uses a simple message flag to tell when/where to move the mail, so the code would have to get much more complicated with more alt paths.
