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From: Matthias Trevarthan <trevarthan@wingnet.net>
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Subject: Re: 4.6.2 filesystem efficiency
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:59:54 -0400
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Anyone?

On Tuesday 24 September 2002 15:42, Matthias Trevarthan wrote:
> Hi.
>
> My company runs FreeBSD 4.6.2 on three different servers. Two of these
> servers handle a good bit of mail. Currently we use sendmail, but we're
> moving towards a switch to qmail and maildir.
>
> I think maildir will significantly increase the number of files on our
> disk. We may have to increase inodes. But...
>
> Just out of curiousity, at what point does FreeBSD's filesystem become
> inefficient for large numbers of files in a single directory?
>
> 300 files?
>
> 1000 files?
>
> 10000 files?
>
> 100000 files?
>
> more?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Matthias
>
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