> On the other hand, XFS was the only Linux filesystems capable to handle our > 5 million files (at that time, we're now at 33 million) we had in these > days with an acceptable performance. Ext3 was way too slow with directories > with > 1000 files (but many things have changed from kernel 2.4.x to > nowadays kernels) It has; not Cyrus but another application we had, and we had to make a'hashed' directory structure to avoid the many-files-in-a-directorysituation. But this isn't true anymore, ext3 performs well with verylarge directories. ----Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twikiList Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
