On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 01:36:03PM -0700, John Henders wrote:
> I haven't had much time to look at Reiserfs. Is there any test data on
> how efficiently it handles lots of small files in a directory as
> compared to ext2fs? Ext2fs is fairly poor at huge number of files in a
> directory. This was likely to be more of a problem with news than mail
> though.
It is supposed to be _very_ good for large number of files in a dir - that's
one of its "selling" points.
> Another nice feature you get with Maildir is a simple to
> implement ability to expire read mail for your users, if your policies
> allow you to do this.
What - you mean with a "find -mtime | xargs rm" type command? :)
Cheers
Ivan
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