A bunch of small files is terrible performance. Really not much you can do about that. Store each mailbox in a single file. MailDir format is definitely going to suck. On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 3:05 AM, David Whiteman <davew at supanet.net.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently looking into GlusterFS to use as a storage cluster for our > email storage. I want to mount the storage from different servers (or VMs), > services accessing the storage include exim, courier-imapd, courier-pop3d. > Our emails are stored in MailDir format, which is many small files. I have > read that GlusterFS doesn't perform very well with small files, is this > still the case? > > I would like to achieve similar (or better) performance to our current NFS > setup, with the added redundancy that GlusterFS provides. > > Is there any utilities I can use to test the performance? > > Thanks in Advance > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
