Re: [exim] Planning MBOX to MAILDIR Migration

Jeff Lasman wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2007 09:34 am, Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>
>> Well, I used to be a big reiser fan but ext3 has caught up in many
>> ways and I'm leaning Ext3 because that's what I have and unless
>> someone convinces me that it's definitely a mistake I think I'm
>> sticking with it. Isn't there some new indexing feature that solves
>> the big directory issue?
>>
>
> Marc, we did the conversion recently on our DirectAdmin boxes, and I had
> some hair-raising moments during the conversion when we saw some
> incredibly huge mailboxes with large amounts of files rsulting from the
> conversion, but all went well. I don't know enough about the numbers,
> but I don't think we're going to hit the limits.
>
> I would have considered ReiserFS if not for Hans's personal problems,
> and Suse's consequent (?) decision to drop support for it in future
> releases. But I now worry about future development of ReiserFS, and I
> don't want to use it on anything new.
>
> Jeff
>

I'm hoping that all I need to do is shut down the server, run a
conversion program, change the transport, and turn it back on. I'll be
running some tests and try to get used to maildir before I make the switch.