Thank you,
Dharmesh M. Mehta
EDM...@email.mot.com
I think it will work BETTER on your large network. The usual way to deliver
local mail is to append it to a mailbox in /var/mail or /var/spool/mail.
For you that will mean at least 3000 files in that directory -- maybe 6000
if your users read mail with POP3.
UNIX searches directories linearly -- on average, it will have to read 3000
directory entries before it finds the right mailbox. If you plan ahead and
create the 3000 home directories in 30-50 subdirectories, lookup should be
faster because the directories will be smaller.
This also sounds more secure to me: users need only access their own
directory, not a shared one.
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Maybe most UNIXes do, but UNIX doesn't.
Most recent filesystems should be much smarter.
I know Irix's XFS (the standard filesstem since Irix-6.2) does and
I'm fairly convinced Digital Unix AdvFS does as well. These are unlikely to
be the only two.
Stefan