[Dovecot] Performance issue about maildir path.

[tomas at tuxteam.de]

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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 03:11:43AM +0000, Jose Celestino wrote:
> 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',

[...]

> 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.

FWIW, Ext3 comes with hashed b-tree index for directories. It's typically
on by default.

Regards
- -- tomás
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