On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 13:48 +0800, Not Zed wrote: > On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 12:38 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 00:12 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > > Why don't you use Maildir instead of mbox for local storage? It scales > > > to way more messages, provided you have a decent file system... > > > > maildir would be nice but it (may) causes some issues when I want to > > archive the messages into CD (with mbox I can just save the whole file > > and re-use it from the CD, I think). > > Either should be ok for that really.
I think maildir may be an issue for that since burning like 70k of messages from Fedora Mail list would be overkill for 1 directory structure. (No I don't organise it by date, only by mail list) > > > I use XFS as my home-dir so it's supposed to be better for large files > > rather than reiserfs (been bitten so.. I"m not going there) > > Yeah i'm not a fan of reiser's stability. > > Unless you expunge every 5 minutes, or need to have other clients > writing to the mailboxes, mbox scales just fine anyway. I expunge every so often. Meaning when I go to sleep at night and decides to clean up. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:18:52 up 6:13, 5 users, load average: 0.49, 0.44, 0.53 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
