On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 13:47, Jason Lim wrote: > Mmm... one of the limitations of Qmail is that it creates many many > individual files (one for each email) and due to filesystem limitations, > EXT2/3 starts slowing to a crawl. Of course, another way would be to use > ReiserFS, but wouldn't doing a FS in a loopback mounted file resolve at > least that?
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