Search Again: Re: 2000 virtual domains From: Men & Mice Support Date: Monday, September 27, 1999 Time: 1:33:00 am At 3:54 AM -0700 9/26/99, Peter Lalor wrote: >Having many files in a folder is a frequent occurrence with mail >servers. We had quite a bit of experience with just over 5000 files >in a folder using Stalker's CommuniGate mail server. What I found was: > >1. You can open the folder in the Finder fine, but it takes a long >time and is to be avoided for that reason alone. >2. The OS appears to have no trouble tracking the files. >3. The ancient DiskTop is very effective at manipulating directories >with large numbers of files, for example moving or copying large >groups of files around. >4. I've had it recommended that HFS+ should be used, but I have no >hard data handy as to why. >5. OS 8.1 has a bug that can cause severe directory damage in >disk-intensive environments. Use any other OS version. Those are good tips. Keep in mind that MacOS 8.5 also has filesystem-related bugs, which can corrupt data in certain types of non-text files. >A user on the SIMS list stated that they had over 24000 files in a >directory, so I doubt it'll be an issue. That's good to know. >This was all about mail servers, and a key difference is that they >don't have all these files _open_ at the same time. My feeling is, if >you have a problem, it'll be in having all the files open at once, >not with storing them in one folder. QuickDNS Pro doesn't keep its files open, it keeps them in memory. However, it does check the file modification dates every three minutes or so. It's very, very rare for a customer to contact us about a corrupted zone file. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

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