> You can contain the fanout by enabling both fulldirhash and > hashimapspool in imapd.conf (but you will need to stop the server and > rehash everything if you do this on an existing system). Of course -- but hashing only gets you so far. > The 32000 limit applies to subdirectories, not to files so it would > only be a problem for the main spool directory of a server with a lot > of users. Hashing should raise the supportable number of users by a > factor of about 20. I suspect there are other things that would stop > you putting 600,000 users on one server... True, but I do expect to reach this number on this machine in the next couple of years. ...And reiserfs has been just fine so far. Then again, I didn't even consider using ext3 at the time. John -- John Madden Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
