Quarantine problem: Ext3 directory limit to 32000 files

hvdkooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Mon Aug 9 15:44:10 IST 2010


On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 16:35:39 +0200, Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org>
wrote:

> Especially since this guy quarantines more than 32,000 mail per day.
> To delete "old" stuff then is making the users have less than a day to
> retrieve their blocked mail. That's poor service.
> 
> His own suggestion of creating hourly catalogs sounded good to me.

Also keep in mind that 32000 files in a directory will be less efficient
to work through.

Hugo.

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