On 2014-04-15, Russell Miller <duskg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As some have noted, modern filesystems are better at this than ones such as 
> ext2.
> However, even in the best of cases, there are still situations where maildirs 
> with a lot of messages
> are awkward to handle.  Specifically, if you're trying to find specific 
> messages based on criteria that
> are not easily discernable from the inode, for example, things with 
> attachments.

This will be bad with an mbox mailbox too.  Actually it'll be worse,
because it'll be too hard to tell which message the grep hits.

--keith


-- 
kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us


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