[Dovecot] avoiding getting maildir cur/ folder contents?

[Johannes Berg]

On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 07:50 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:

> Hmmm, so how many mails in one directory are we talking about?

~35k on biggest worst folders. The thing is that dovecot seems to not
just read the contents once but for each select or something.

> If Xen is the only thing you can't get out of, have you considered 
> using an alternate filesystem? For example, I hear ReiserFS does very 
> well with Maildir (though I haven't tried it on anything big).

I don't trust reiserfs at all, it has eaten my data repeatedly. It would
also be quite hard to go away from ext3 anyway :)

johannes
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