From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 13 9:12:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spice.eahd.or.ug (spice.eahd.or.ug [216.250.215.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97AAE37B401 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:12:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@eahd.or.ug) Received: by spice.eahd.or.ug (Postfix at spice.eahd.or.ug, from userid 542) id E37AC7571F; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:26:07 +0300 (EAT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spice.eahd.or.ug (Postfix at spice.eahd.or.ug) with ESMTP id DFB23755D9; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:26:07 +0300 (EAT) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:26:07 +0300 (EAT) From: Patrick To: Cc: Daniel Harris , Subject: Re: postfix && Maildir In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 scanner@jurai.net wrote: > suckier Maildir performs. It's *alot* easier to deal with one large file > then a directory with tons of smaller files. Especially for searching. So > basically if you never go above a handfull of mail it won't matter to > much. But the more you throw at Maildir the worse it gets. Well, for starters, I am not planning on having that much mail but so that this can scale... What about if I had say 100 or so directories with about 100 subdirectories each with a max number of files per directory so that each directory does not get more than a certain number of files in it? Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message