From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Pysiak Satriani" Subject: considerations for reiserfs with lots of files. Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 14:55:55 +0200 Message-ID: <4456055bdae5b@wp.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Reiserfs List Hi! I am running a mail server that stores email on a 270G reiserfs partition in a Maildir format (one file per email message) I have an account that is a kind of a tap and receives tremendous amounts of email. In just over 2 months I have 233k email messages, ie. 233k files in one directory! Now, the obvious thing is that accessing that directory takes some time, I understand that, but I am having other problems with it. Since creating that account I started having strange problems like: - files impossible to delete/read/rename (well actually I found one like that) - reiserfsck --fix-fixable told me that it found some nodes that need --rebuild-tree - I had an reiserfs related oops, unfortunately It did not save to the log. So my question is, are there any special considerations for reiserfs with huge directories? I am running 2.6.16.11, the partition is mounted exec,dev,suid, rw,noatime,notail,iocharset=iso8859-2 It is qmail and courier-imap that operate on these maildir accounts. Best regards, Maciej