On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:34:51AM -0600, John Maier wrote:
> I am setting up NetBSD as a mail server.
> 
> I will be adding 2000+ email accounts and have a logistics question.
> 
> Which way would be better for a user home directory structure?
> 
> one global directory (i.e. /usr/home/) were all the user in one place?
> Or breaking them up alphabetically (i.e. /usr/home/a/ /usr/home/b/ etc)?
> 
> I want to keep the performance hit for disk accesses down, including
> fragmentation.

Can't these users be groupped by some way (workgroup, projects, job, etc) ?
Otherwise just use letter, but anyway it's better to break them in
sub-directories.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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