Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:59:54 -0400 From: Matthias Trevarthan <trevarthan@wingnet.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6.2 filesystem efficiency Message-ID: <200209250859.54307.trevarthan@wingnet.net> In-Reply-To: <200209241542.44221.trevarthan@wingnet.net> References: <200209241542.44221.trevarthan@wingnet.net>
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Anyone? On Tuesday 24 September 2002 15:42, Matthias Trevarthan wrote: > Hi. > > My company runs FreeBSD 4.6.2 on three different servers. Two of these > servers handle a good bit of mail. Currently we use sendmail, but we're > moving towards a switch to qmail and maildir. > > I think maildir will significantly increase the number of files on our > disk. We may have to increase inodes. But... > > Just out of curiousity, at what point does FreeBSD's filesystem become > inefficient for large numbers of files in a single directory? > > 300 files? > > 1000 files? > > 10000 files? > > 100000 files? > > more? > > Thanks! > > Matthias > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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