On Tuesday 06 March 2007 12:02, Pawel Tecza wrote: > Frederik Dannemare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > Yeah, I would probably go with XFS as well. At my former workplace, > > we had more than 32000 customer mail boxes for a particular mail > > domain and with a typical mail directory structure (e.g. > > example.org/peter, example.org/john, example.org/jane, etc), one > > will run into a subdir limitation with ext3. > > What's the subdir limitation for XFS? Isn't the same like for ext3?
It is higher, but I'm not sure how high, though. Just tested with 64000 subdirs on an XFS filesystem and it didn't complain. > You can easy work-around a problem with the limitation adding subdirs > for all your domains, e.g. example.org/001/peter, > example.org/002/john, example.org/003/jane, etc. > > I agree that it seems a little more complicated, but if you store > a path to users Maildir in a data base, that it's no problem. True. -- B/R, Frederik Dannemare ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
