Adam Cassar <adam.cassar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 ? > > 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. This is probably the one. https://listman.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2003-December/msg00040.html _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
