From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <mailgate@hometree.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Maximum files per Directory
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:21:59 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9cojjn$si1$1@forge.intermeta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <272800000.988750082@hades>
Andreas Rogge <lu01@rogge.yi.org> writes:
>While trying to create 100.000 (in words: one hundred thousand) Mailboxes
>with
>cyrus-imapd i ran into problems.
>At about 2^15 files the filesystem gave up, telling me that there cannot be
>more files in a directory.
Ugh. Went into this on a NetApp Filer some years ago, too.
Easy solution: Use multiple partitions with cyrus.
I also have a hashing patch for cyrus somewhere.
Does ReiserFS help here?
Regards
Henning
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-02 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-01 20:48 Maximum files per Directory Andreas Rogge
2001-05-01 20:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-01 22:57 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-04 13:49 ` Chris Mason
2001-05-04 19:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-04 20:08 ` Chris Mason
2001-05-05 13:49 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-05-05 16:16 ` Chris Mason
2001-05-01 21:02 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-01 22:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-02 10:22 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-05-02 16:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-02 13:33 ` Ketil Froyn
2001-05-02 9:21 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen [this message]
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