On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 02:09:11AM +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: > > On Friday 06 October 2006 00:34, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > > > > On a 200-user mail server with a 500gb reiser3 fs, quotacheck takes an > > hour at boot time. This is a mail server with 200 users. > > > which linux version is in use on the server?
Debian unstable with latest kernel 2.6.17. > > Is that normal? Is there a way to speed it up? > > > > How do users store their mails? If they store one mail in a separate > file, then quotacheck is to iterate over > a lot files which can be very time consuming. We use maildir, so, yes, it's a lot of files. Isn't there a way to run quotacheck in the background while daemons start serving users? Or must it absolutely be run at mount time to be effective? Thanks,
