interesting limitation

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Jure Pecar wrote:
> This is clearly a limitation of the filesystem. How does other filesystems
> handle this?

I have a XFS dir with more than 40k objects, and it still performs okay...
but I had some not-so-nice words with the people involved and told them to
learn about hash directories, and to fix that :)

> The solution here is full dir hash. But, the next limit is at 26*32k users.

Should be enough users for a single spool, don't ya think?  Cyrus Murder
might fix your problem, though, if you don't mind multiple imapd instances
(in multiple boxes if at all possible).

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh