best filesystem for imap server

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Tue Dec 7 07:51:08 EST 2004


On Tue, 07 Dec 2004, Einar Indridason wrote:
> We do have some *huge* mail-folders here, running on ext3, and when a
> directory gets over a certain size, every operation on the directory
> increases in time very sharply.  (Due to the "linked list" implementation
> in ext2/ext3.)

Is that ext3 in 2.6.8.1+ with all the htrees enabled?

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