[Dovecot] Unexpected behaviour when deleteing a big mailbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On 27.3.2007, at 15.53, Steffen Kaiser wrote:

>> Are you using ext3? I just found a bug in it that could cause this  
>> with
>> large maildirs.
>
> You are right, I had been using ext3 with this test.

It wasn't ext3's fault actually after all what I noticed. In your  
other test the problems could be explained by  
maildir_copy_preserve_filenames=yes but I'm not actually sure about  
this. Can you still reproduce the errors with rc28?

> However, I'm thinking to switch over to XFS, because ext3 does not  
> like directories with many files in it, most nagging is the fact  
> that ext3 does not shrink directories.

xfs is a lot slower than ext3 with maildir at least in my tests.
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