25 Oct
2010
25 Oct
'10
6:25 p.m.
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 06:02 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Timo Sirainen put forth on 10/21/2010 4:10 PM:
On 21.10.2010, at 19.14, Timo Sirainen wrote:
- mdbox: Added mdbox_preallocate_space setting (Linux+ext3/XFS only)
ext4 of course, not ext3. Also requires Linux kernel v2.6.23 or newer and glibc 2.10 or newer.
Is this available for mbox or just mdbox? If mdbox only, why not mbox also?
It's only for mdbox because they have a known upper size (mdbox_rotate_size). With mbox the only possibility would be to let admin specify how large the files should be preallocated to. And how would the admin know? And should different mailboxes have different preallocated sizes? For example "Drafts" mailbox is unlikely to ever grow very large. And in any case, if you care about performance mbox isn't really the best choice.