Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: Maximum files per Directory | Date | Wed, 2 May 2001 09:21:59 +0000 (UTC) |
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Andreas Rogge <lu01@rogge.yi.org> writes:
>While trying to create 100.000 (in words: one hundred thousand) Mailboxes >with >cyrus-imapd i ran into problems. >At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling me that there cannot be >more files in a directory.
Ugh. Went into this on a NetApp Filer some years ago, too.
Easy solution: Use multiple partitions with cyrus.
I also have a hashing patch for cyrus somewhere.
Does ReiserFS help here?
Regards Henning
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