> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian [mailto:mallet@efn.org]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 9:40 AM
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [Exim] NFS with EXIM
>
>
> * [Philip Hazel on 13/08/01 13:46 +0100]
> > That is what a lot of people tell you. Nevertheless, many big sites
> > (including ours) do this, and do not suffer problems. (We
> use Network
> > Appliance fileservers.)
>
> Oh well, if you got that kind of kit, excellent :) I
> preferred maildir
> because even with nfs lockd, mbox was rather too much of a
> performance hit for
> my client's (rather antique) servers.
>
One of the funny things is that WAFL, Netapp's filesystem, performs much
better than ordinary ufs, ext2, etc. at having huge numbers of files in a
directory. So that makes netapp even better suited for maildir.
Matt
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