Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

[William T Wilson]

On Sat, 16 May 1998, Steve Glines wrote:

> We modified both local.mail and popper to use a substring of the MD5
> hash string to create 256 sub directories. MD5 gives us a random
> distribution based on user names. We get mail files like
> /var/spool/2f/joe. 

Just out of curiosity, why are you doing this?  Are you storing the mail
directories over several different drives/partitions?


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