[Dovecot] Users with large (4GB) inboxes crippling dovecot

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

On 31. mai. 2009, at 06.00, tomas at tuxteam.de wrote:

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> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:25:58PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>> On 30. mai. 2009, at 00.03, Scott Silva wrote:
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>> AFAIK an "updatedb" (as in locate/slocate) [...]
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> This won't help with the original poster's problem (which is in  
> helping
> the kernel to cope with huge directories). The OP's problem is at the
> kernel level, locate is an application (albeit a nice one).


My reply was about how to update the directory index after adding it  
to a ext3 filesystem.
The original poster's problem was about large _files_, not  
directories. ext3 can handle large directories without problems  
(except that the maximum number of subdirectories in one directory is  
fixed to 32000). Also, files opened with O_LARGEFILE, can be up to 2TB  
on ext3.

roy
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