On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:01:39PM, Christian Ordig wrote: > uhhh ... what kind of system did you use for measurement?? P2-350 with a 20Gb HDD running Linux 2.4.17 on a Slackware 8.0. My ~/mail is on a 600 Mb reiserfs partition. I think I will convert my /home dir to ext3 and then try Maildir to compare.
> on my P100 with a quite old HDD running OpenBSD 2.9 it takes
> about one minute to open the whole mutt archive of last year
> (about 9900 messages)...
It takes about 7 seconds to open my mutt archive with 7914 messages.
> the advantage of Maildir over mbox I see: deleting a single message
> in a really big mailbox is nothing more than simply deleting one
> file with mbox it means writing the whole folder again leaving out
> this one message .....
yes, I know. I tried to convert my mbox to Maildirs, but about 3 minutes
to open a folder is really awfull, so I keep mbox
> Christian Ordig
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