From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 22 7:36:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay05.indigo.ie (relay05.indigo.ie [194.125.133.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD5F614BD2 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 1999 07:36:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from judgea@indigo.ie) Received: (qmail 4044 messnum 1192104 invoked from network[194.125.133.235/relay-mgr.indigo.ie]); 22 Nov 1999 15:34:55 -0000 Received: from relay-mgr.indigo.ie (HELO indigo.ie) (194.125.133.235) by relay05.indigo.ie (qp 4044) with SMTP; 22 Nov 1999 15:34:55 -0000 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmpfw in pine via NFS In-reply-to: Message from "Daniel C. Sobral" dated Thursday at 02:11. From: Alan Judge Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:34:55 +0000 Message-Id: <19991122153656.DD5F614BD2@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel> /me shivers at the thought of my (easily) 500+ new messages a day Daniel> and hundreds of thousands of messages being stored one file for each Daniel> message... Works OK for us (and a number of even larger ISPs using Maildirs). Though we use NetApps for the file storage and they have a much better system for storing large numbers of files in a directory, so it doesn't get quadratically slower. Largest single FS we have at the moment has about 3.5 million files in it; I don't know what the largest number of files in a single directory is, but I've seen 10s of thousands on occasion without problems. It works much better than a large file per user and NFS file locking, which makes me shiver. -- Alan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message