journaling fs and large mailbox format

[Vaclav Haisman]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Doug Barton wrote:

> Alin-Adrian Anton wrote:
>
>> XFS fits incredibly well with Maildir, however this I did not test 
>> practically 
>
> I am curious as to what the defaults are for frag, inode, and block sizes on 
> XFS, and whether that is one of the factors that make it work well with 
> maildir.
>
> Doug

I don't think that frag, inode and block size is the main factor that makes XFS 
work well in many small files situations. From what I have read about XFS I 
gather that it allocates inodes on demand, that it doesn't have fixed amount of 
them.

 	VH