We have a similar set up but the maildirs are exported via NFS. Performance was actually worse. There is a userspace preload lib that supposedly fixes the problem but by that time I didn't bother continuing. Search the archives for the thread. On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 01:13, Jakob Curdes wrote: > Hi, > > I stumbled on the dir_index option of recent ext2 implementation which > would be interesting for our mailservers (running dovecot with maildir) > and found out that the newer ext2progs are able to cope with it; the 2.6 > kernels do also but for the 2.4 kernels I still require a patch. Is that > correct? Which patch would be the correct one to apply to the current > 2.4.27 kernel ? Can anybody comment on the stability of > dir_index-enabled filesystems ? > > Thank you for hints, > > Jakob Curdes > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users -- Adam Cassar IT Manager NetRegistry Pty Ltd ______________________________________________ http://www.netregistry.com.au Tel: 02 9699 6099 Fax: 02 9699 6088 PO Box 270 Broadway NSW 2007 Domains |Business Email|Web Hosting|E-Commerce Trusted by 10,000s of businesses since 1997 ______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
