Re: [Dovecot] Directory Layout Performance

2009-07-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:48:04AM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: Mario Antonio Garcia wrote: From a performance perspective: [...] I use a filesystem that handles this better than ext3 such as XFS or Reiser. Ext3 should be fine for huge directories these days

Re: [Dovecot] Directory Layout Performance

2009-07-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:06:24PM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:48:04AM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: Mario Antonio Garcia wrote: From a performance perspective: [...] I use a filesystem

Re: [Dovecot] Directory Layout Performance

2009-07-02 Thread Charles Marcus
On 7/2/2009, to...@tuxteam.de (to...@tuxteam.de) wrote: [...] Yeah, I know Reiser should have better performance with [...] Hm. I think Reiser is for those make sure you know what aou're doing. I have myself some partitions on Reiser, but I'm not so sure I would base critical stuff on it.

Re: [Dovecot] Directory Layout Performance

2009-07-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 06:01:01AM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: On 7/2/2009, to...@tuxteam.de (to...@tuxteam.de) wrote: [...] Hm. I think Reiser is [...] Lets please stop with the FUD. Oops. Sorry. I didn't want to step on anyone's toes. Yes,

Re: [Dovecot] Directory Layout Performance

2009-07-02 Thread Charles Marcus
On 7/2/2009, to...@tuxteam.de (to...@tuxteam.de) wrote: If you based your decision of what filesystem to use on whether or not there have ever been any serious problems encountered with it, you wouldn't have a computer. No. I base my assessment on other people's experiences. I said, '... any

[Dovecot] Directory Layout Performance

2009-07-01 Thread Mario Antonio Garcia
From a performance perspective: Which Directory layout is better: 1. All mailboxes are stored in a single directory and prefixed with a dot or 2. Maildirs using physical directories, such as: Maildir/folder/subfolder/ It looks like the second option -- File Sytem Layout (LAYOUT=fs) -- could

Re: [Dovecot] Directory Layout Performance

2009-07-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
Mario Antonio Garcia wrote: From a performance perspective: Which Directory layout is better: 1. All mailboxes are stored in a single directory and prefixed with a dot or 2. Maildirs using physical directories, such as: Maildir/folder/subfolder/ It looks like the second option -- File

Re: [Dovecot] Directory Layout Performance

2009-07-01 Thread Mario Antonio Garcia
Seth, XFS ussually performs better handling large files, and Reiser handling small files I also think that File system like XFS could handle Large Directoreis in a better way: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/papers/xfs_usenix/index.html Nevertheless, this thread

Re: [Dovecot] Directory Layout Performance

2009-07-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:48:04AM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: Mario Antonio Garcia wrote: From a performance perspective: [...] I use a filesystem that handles this better than ext3 such as XFS or Reiser. Ext3 should be fine for huge