Date: 25 Sep 2002 09:31:29 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: trevarthan@wingnet.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.6.2 filesystem efficiency Message-ID: <443cryxkjy.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200209241542.44221.trevarthan@wingnet.net> References: <200209241542.44221.trevarthan@wingnet.net>
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Matthias Trevarthan <trevarthan@wingnet.net> writes: > 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? DIRHASH was standard in the GENERIC kernel by 4.6.2, so you should be fine with hundreds of thousands of files. Just make sure that you have "options UFS_DIRHASH" in your kernel configuration. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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