From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 12:42:57 2002 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 6CC9B37B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:42:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agape.wingnet.net (agape.wingnet.net [206.30.215.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5401743E6E for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:42:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trevarthan@wingnet.net) Received: from david.int.wingnet.net (makrothumia.wingnet.net [206.30.215.5]) by agape.wingnet.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8OJgiks003928 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:42:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from trevarthan@wingnet.net) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Matthias Trevarthan Reply-To: trevarthan@wingnet.net Organization: Urokosodoji, Inc. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 4.6.2 filesystem efficiency Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:42:44 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200209241542.44221.trevarthan@wingnet.net> 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 Hi. My company runs FreeBSD 4.6.2 on three different servers. Two of these se= rvers=20 handle a good bit of mail. Currently we use sendmail, but we're moving=20 towards a switch to qmail and maildir.=20 I think maildir will significantly increase the number of files on our di= sk.=20 We may have to increase inodes. But... Just out of curiousity, at what point does FreeBSD's filesystem become=20 inefficient for large numbers of files in a single directory? 300 files? 1000 files? 10000 files? 100000 files? more? Thanks! Matthias To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message