Well, this for an ISP application, so I wish it were that simple.

But I can do that to an extent since we host multiple domains.

John Maier
Administrator
Midamerica Internet Services
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
To: "John Maier" <jmaier@midamerica.net>
Cc: <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>; <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: adding a large number of users


> 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.
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> --
>