[Dovecot] Unexpected behaviour when deleteing a big mailbox

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de
Tue Mar 27 15:53:16 EEST 2007


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On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> Are you using ext3? I just found a bug in it that could cause this with
> large maildirs.

You are right, I had been using ext3 with this test.
However, I'm thinking to switch over to XFS, because ext3 does not like 
directories with many files in it, most nagging is the fact that ext3 does 
not shrink directories.

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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