From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 2 May 2001 05:22:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 2 May 2001 05:22:11 -0400 Received: from tangens.hometree.net ([212.34.181.34]:61091 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 May 2001 05:22:01 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: forge.intermeta.de!not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: Maximum files per Directory Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:21:59 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: <9cojjn$si1$1@forge.intermeta.de> In-Reply-To: <272800000.988750082@hades> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 988795319 5870 212.34.181.4 (2 May 2001 09:21:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 09:21:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2001 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Rogge 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 -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20