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Re: BMITU

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Sun Sep 07 01:49:39 2003 
On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 22:11:41 PDT, Jim Shankland said:

> Hans Reiser would argue that that reflects a limitation of the
> filesystem, rather than of qmail; and that apps should not
> have to code around such unreasonable filesystem limitations.
> And reiserfs goes to considerable effort to achieve good
> performance on directories containing thousands of small
> files.
> 
> This would imply that if you're going to use qmail in a high-volume
> environment, you might consider using reiserfs, also.

I'd recommend also  tracking/testing reiser4 in your testbed - the early
benchmarks on it are quite astounding....

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