On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 01:30:00PM +0000, hector babou wrote:
> I want to set up a large mail delivery system.
> To obtain better performance, i'd like to set
> up something like :
> mail for user ABC would be in [blablabla]/A/B/C
> mail for user AAA would be in [blablabla]/A/A/A
>
> see what i want to do ?
Don't! unless you actully are setting up the usernames...
> How can i do that ? Someone ever done that ?
Have a look at nhash. It does something very similar and works well with
up to 3 million users. Basicly, it splits usernames into a div/mod
hash directory structure. In your example you'll get something like:
fred -> /mail/0/34/fred
foo -> /mail/2/104/foo
where your dir struct is (say) /mail/[0-9]/[0-200]/username/
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