ext3 to ReiserFS (was Re: [Nolug] postfix, Maildir and non-$HOME delivery)

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 08:05, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> >> I don't know about putting the Maildir in var; however, unless
> >> you've got several hundred users, Maildir is going to be less
> >> efficient than mbox format (which would be in /var/mail/$user),
> >> speed-wise.
> >
> > But I've got an IMAP server.
>
> WU's IMAP server does mbox format.
>
> Is mbox faster? I doubt it. Do you have any benchmarks or
> comparisons, Joey?
>
> For a while back in 2000 (or thereabouts) I had an mbox with 2000+
> emails in it. It caused WU-IMAPd to crash. They did eventually fix
> it, though.
>
> >> That said, there's nothing stopping you from symlinking to /var/mail/.
> >
> > Yeah, I guess I could do that...
>
> Or, if the box is used exclusively for email, just set the home dir
> to be /var/mail/$USER/.
>
> Or, just remount your Reiser partition as /home.

/var/mail would have been ReiserFS. All those little files just
scream for ReiserFS.

Is there a way to do an in situo partition conversion from ext[23]
to ReiserFS? None that I've heard of, but others may know.

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