On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:59:00PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:56:08AM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
>
> > I've done some experimenting with Maildirs. I've found it to be quite
> > a bit *slower* than mbox, particularly on big folders. This is on a
> > Linux ext2 partition. I had one Maildir that was an archive of a
>
> Yeah, but try deleting a mail from that 50MB mailbox. Boy, this will
> suck.
Not only that but create a reiserfs filesystem and put your Maildir on it.
It will absolutely FLY! reiserfs was designed for handling many small
files such as in a Maildir. I've been using reiserfs for a year now with
excellent results.
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