From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 21:24:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 577E337B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:24:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AACDE43F5F for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:24:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.techno.pagans (12-224-208-117.client.attbi.com [12.224.208.117]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CCC01005F for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:24:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D958AA92 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:24:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E2F7C7D.505@pantherdragon.org> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:24:13 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Maildirs and their filesystem overhead/impact Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm currently facing a problem of having used Netscape (now Mozilla) for years in Windows and now trying to find something I can regularly use in FreeBSD without losing Mozilla in Windows. I was thinking of something involving IMAP and NFS. I already have Courier-IMAP running, so I can use IMAP with Mozilla in Windows, and use either IMAP or NFS-mount my Maildir in FreeBSD. That part is almost a no-brainer. Moving my Mozilla mail store poses a number of technical questions and problems. I have more than 32,000 emails saved up in 200 folders. Some folders, like the one for the postfix-users list, can have 3000-4000 messages in them. For growth, we'll say 5000 messages. How well would FreeBSD, Courier-IMAP, and postfix be able to handle a directory with 5000 files in it? How about a directory with 200 subdirectories in it? I know that the parameters given to newfs can greatly impact the suitablility of a filesystem for a given task. How do I get that information from an existing filesystem? Dumpfs? Dumpfs spews HUGE amounts of information, but I don't know enough to make sense of the output. I really would like to stick with Maildirs and Courier-IMAP for this. I know CIMAP well and is very fast and stable. However, if these demands are just too much to expect, then can someone please tell me where I can find Cyrus for Dummies? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message