[Dovecot] New mailbox format

[Marc Perkel]

dean gaudet wrote:

>On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Marc Perkel wrote:
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>>Just curious - have any of you tried the ReiserFS file system with Maildir? I
>>would think that it should make maildir a lot faster and more efficient.
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>i think reiser has a lot of cool ideas, but i haven't tried it.
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>even with reiser you need to move away from the POSIX API to make a huge 
>dent in the scalability of maildirs... you need to start amortizing 
>multiple file operations per system call for one thing.  (and there is a 
>sys_reiser or something proposed for this, but i haven't looked at it).  
>but that still doesn't help all the dcache and inode cache overhead in the 
>kernel... and backup systems will still continue to blow chunks when 
>presented with 100Ms of inodes...
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>-dean
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Reiser doesn't use INodes and appears to have infinite inodes. I've 
never used maildir but if I did I'd want to use Reiser on it because 
that's where Reiser is supposed to really gain.

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