Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 02:27:32 -0500 From: Michael Butler <imbutler@comcast.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very large directory Message-ID: <41EF5D64.3000004@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20050120070113.GC7352@dan.emsphone.com> References: <00b001c4fea0$7533d490$6745a8c0@MESE> <20050120070113.GC7352@dan.emsphone.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dan Nelson wrote: | Try raising your datasize rlimit value; .. I found this (lots of files in a directory) to be generally a Bad Idea. Search performance tends to be poor even with the improvements in 5.x While I'm not sure that it's possible to in this instance, I have previously in a practical implementation, used OpenLDAP to specify separate 'Maildir' directories for mail storage based on the first letter of the username. Although I'm sure there are better and more distributed hash mechanisms, this was the quickest (and most commercially expedient) to hack into the LDAP database, Michael Butler CISSP Security Consultant SAVVIS Communications www.savvis.net Transforming Information Technology PGP Key ID: 0x5E873CC5 Fingerprint: 2CFF 581F D192 F885 7ED9 3C44 889C A479 5E87 3CC5 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFB711kiJykeV6HPMURAtdIAKC4Su7aFuXEO8vIWtFfJZnpr686tACfWsv1 O7LY1ONU2w4Hf+7DtE+ddog= =72Cu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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