Re: [Dovecot] Performance issue about maildir path.

Words by Zhang Huangbin [Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:00:45AM +0800]:

Hi, all.

Normally, i use 'domain.ltd/username/Maildir' as users' maildir path, if i change them to hash style, e.g. 'A0/B0/domain.ltd/C0/D0/username/Maildir', will it speed up the index operation for MDA? If we have 10000 users, which maildir path style will improve performance?

Depends on which filesystem you put the maildirs on. For instance with ext* you'll get a performance boost. Anyway it's always a good arquitecture decision to hash it.

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