On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 08:51:13PM +0200, Mattias Pantzare wrote: > 2008/6/6 Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I was going to post some history of scaling mail, but I blogged it instead. > > http://blogs.sun.com/relling/entry/on_var_mail_and_quotas > > The problem with that argument is that 10.000 users on one vxfs or UFS > filesystem is no problem at all, be it /var/mail or home directories. > You don't even need a fast server for that. 10.000 zfs file systems is > a problem.
10k one-file filesystems, all with the same parent dataset would be silly as you'd be spreading the overhead of each dataset over one file and listing the parent would require listing child datasets, and ... 10k home directories is entirely different. > So, if it makes you happier, substitute mail with home directories. I don't think comparing /var/mail and home directories is comparing apples to apples. Also, don't use /var/mail. Use IMAP. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
