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Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???



On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 06:41:28AM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote:

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> I'm not familiar with XFS, but reiserfs (which I usually use for large
> directories) uses a hash table to store entries.  Insertion, deletion,
> and searches are therefor largely independent of directory size, and
> performance for large directories is vastly superior.
> 
> I have seen reports that XFS beats both ext3 and reiserfs performance by
> a huge factor -- recent Linux Journal article on the recent 64-way SGI
> GNU/Linux server.

XFS is a great filesystem, and seems stable on i386.  However, if
you're running debian on a non-i386 platform, don't expect XFS to work
well.

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