-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 05:51:27PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >> I've yet to fathom a need for a 2 million message mailbox. Not to >> mention >> the support structure behind it since 2 million would break or strain both >> maildir and mbox. > > Perhaps reiserfs?
I have an ext3 directory with close to 10^6 files in it, and it has no problem reading a single file. The app is pretty slow adding "the first" file, but after all the relevant data structures are cached, adding more files is a snap. The size of the average email in D-User (2006q3) is 5150.46 bytes, just a smidge over 5KiB. So an mbox with 2*10^6 d-User emails in it would be (decimal) 10.3GB. Do most mbox support libraries have long-file support? Even if they did, deleting an email from such a file would be painful in the extreme. As for Maildir, ext3 could handle that. Reiserfs could, but don't know what it would gain you, since it's forte' is *small* files, and I think that 5KiB is just a bit too big. Either way, it is the MUA that must analyze the headers and put them in thread-order, and that would just be a beast. Besides, how does one manage a 2*10^6 email folder? My 21" monitor running at 1280x1024 can only display 45 email subjects. That would be *44,445* screens of emails. Totally unmanageable by humans. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE9tP7S9HxQb37XmcRAnZDAKCC01322jg2m2pB2gKR4kgUCoKOkgCdHd7M YGZVYaKFXEBgXARIwe9m0G0= =8n/x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
