John Gonzalez/netMDC admin writes:
> Maildir works (about as best as can be expected) over NFS
>
> But that really is a solution _I_ wouldnt like to go with.
>
> There also might be some kernel hacking you can do that can cope better
> with many filenames in one directory, etc.
If you're only talking about Maildir, the solution to a large Maildir is to
refile the mail into multiple folders.
I do not believe that using Maildirs uses up more inodes than an average
filesystem. Most filesystems allocate one inode per 4096 bytes, which
happens to be approximately the average size of an E-mail message. My
experience with Maildirs is that they scale to about a thousand messages on
a system with average CPU horsepower and reasonably fast SCSI disks.
Anything more than a thousand messages, and you should start thinking about
folder management.
--
Sam
