dovecot - Dec 2008 - Performance issue about maildir path.

Hi, all.

Normally, i use 'domain.ltd/username/Maildir' as users' maildir
path, if
i change them to hash style, e.g.
'A0/B0/domain.ltd/C0/D0/username/Maildir',
will it speed up the index operation for MDA? If we have 10000 users,
which maildir path style will improve performance?

Thanks very much. :)

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Zhang Huangbin

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Words by Zhang Huangbin [Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:00:45AM
+0800]:
> Hi, all.
>
> Normally, i use 'domain.ltd/username/Maildir' as users' maildir
path, if
> i change them to hash style, e.g.
'A0/B0/domain.ltd/C0/D0/username/Maildir',
> will it speed up the index operation for MDA? If we have 10000 users,
> which maildir path style will improve performance?
>
Depends on which filesystem you put the maildirs on. For instance with
ext* you'll get a performance boost. Anyway it's always a good
arquitecture decision to hash it.

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