[Dovecot] Directory Layout Performance

[tomas at tuxteam.de]

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On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 11:48:04AM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> Mario Antonio Garcia wrote:
> > From a performance perspective:

[...]

> I use a filesystem that handles this better than ext3 such as XFS or Reiser.

Ext3 should be fine for huge directories these days (given mount option
dir_index it uses hashes for directory lists, but that should be the default
in newer installations). You can find out whether it's on with "tune2fs <device>".

Regards
- -- tomás
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