[Dovecot] New mailbox format
Brian Bartholomew
bb at stat.ufl.edu
Fri Sep 23 23:44:03 EEST 2005
> 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.
My Sun 420R bought in 2001 just took six seconds for find | wc to tell
me I had half a million files and dirs in all my Maildirs.
| backup systems will still continue to blow chunks when presented
| with 100Ms of inodes...
We use IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). It's probably only
cost-effective for large shops, but it works great.
Brian
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