interesting limitation

[Dave O]

2 level hashing would work, but I don't know if Cyrus supports that.  It
would most likely be trivial to implement.

eg spool/s/sm/user/smith


On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Jure Pecar wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Recently i was testing a 2.2 branch on linux with Veritas vxfs. I wanted to
> create 200000 users in the form of userN, where n is 1..200000. I soon found
> out that vxfs won't let me create more than 32k subdirs in one dir.
>
> This is clearly a limitation of the filesystem. How does other filesystems
> handle this?
>
> The solution here is full dir hash. But, the next limit is at 26*32k users.
> Is anyone actually nearing this number of users on a single box? Probably
> not, but who knows what the future may bring ...
>
>
> --
>
> Jure Pecar
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