Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:34:55 +0000 From: Alan Judge <Alan.Judge@indigo.ie> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmpfw in pine via NFS Message-ID: <19991122153656.DD5F614BD2@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Daniel C. Sobral" dated Thursday at 02:11.
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Daniel> /me shivers at the thought of my (easily) 500+ new messages a day Daniel> and hundreds of thousands of messages being stored one file for each Daniel> message... Works OK for us (and a number of even larger ISPs using Maildirs). Though we use NetApps for the file storage and they have a much better system for storing large numbers of files in a directory, so it doesn't get quadratically slower. Largest single FS we have at the moment has about 3.5 million files in it; I don't know what the largest number of files in a single directory is, but I've seen 10s of thousands on occasion without problems. It works much better than a large file per user and NFS file locking, which makes me shiver. -- Alan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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