Brett Coon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 20 Jun 2000:
> So, in summary, MH format is sloooow in mutt. NFS makes it far
> slower, no doubt due to NFS write behavior,
You could try also Maildir. It's NFS safe (no locking needed!), and
it might (ought to!) give you a better performance on folder close,
at least what comes to deleting messages.
On the other hand, opening a folder will still be slow, because here
it's the NFS that's being the bottleneck.
Still, if you use any other format except Maildir over NFS, and you
don't take *good* care to make sure locking works over that, then you
have the risk of losing mail or getting folder corruption. The risk
might be small admittedly, but definitely not zero. Maildir is good
because you don't have to worry about locking at all. Up to you to
decide how much you value your mail...
Regards,
Mikko
--
// Mikko H�nninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/
// The Corrs list maintainer // net.freak // DALnet IRC operator /
// Interests: roleplaying, Linux, the Net, fantasy & scifi, the Corrs /
Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb? A: Fish
