[Dovecot] Spliting Folders for Efficiency

[Chris Laif]

On 10/11/07, Daniel Watts <d at nielwatts.com> wrote:
> Dear Timo,
>
> Would there be any sense in giving Dovecot the option to split folders
> into multiple subfolders when they reached a specified size (probably
> message count) limit?
>

Many modern file systems offer the possibility to use optimized
directory indexes. Listing these directories scales very well.
Splitting files into subdirectories would have a negative effect: You
have to walk through every directory and merge all file names into one
data table.

Chris