Re: [Exim] Re: Large queue sizes - big directories - and Rei…

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Author: Miham KEREKES
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Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: Large queue sizes - big directories - and Reiser File System
Hi,

> >With Reiser - since it is built on a b-tree database when you go to open
> >the file - it's almost instant. And that's the real advantage as it
> >applies to Exim. Also - Reiser never runs out of inodes.
> Current ext3 has indexed directories. I think you can even turn it
> on on existing filesystems, no need to backup, rebuild filesystem,
> restore. See mke2fs / tune2fs manpages. OTOH I think it's only in
> the 2.6 kernels at this point. Most people don't want to run a
> mailserver on 2.6. But just FYI..

AFAIK, it's available in 2.4, too, but just after you have applied the
WOLK patch (Working Overloaded Linux Kernel - http://wolk.sf.net/)

Miham.
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