[Dovecot] Unexpected behaviour when deleteing a big mailbox
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Tue Mar 27 23:18:37 EEST 2007
On 27.3.2007, at 15.53, Steffen Kaiser 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.
It wasn't ext3's fault actually after all what I noticed. In your
other test the problems could be explained by
maildir_copy_preserve_filenames=yes but I'm not actually sure about
this. Can you still reproduce the errors with rc28?
> 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.
xfs is a lot slower than ext3 with maildir at least in my tests.
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