Reiserfs is, indeed, very fast at handling lots and lots of files in
directories. I've been using it on three servers for quite some time, with
both IMAP and INN spools located there, and it works very well and is very
quick.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivan Beveridge" <ivan.beveridge@???>
To: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: Strange problem whilst using Reiserfs
> 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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