"David Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>He says that Maildir is unsuitable for large servers because the
>filesytems serialize creation and deletion of files in a single file
>system, because the inode and free block tables have to be
>manipulated.
Yes, that's what makes maildirs reliable. TANSTAAFL
>Thus the file creation part of Maildir drivery ends up being
>serialized and you spend all your time in the filesystem. He states
>problems with servers processing more than a few hundred messages per
>second (300+ or so).
That's a pretty high rate of delivery. Any server delivery nearly that
much mail would surely be delivering to multiple file systems.
-Dave
