On 1/15/24 14:56, David Wright wrote:
On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 18:17:58 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
On 1/14/24 12:53, mick.crane wrote:
Isn't mbox (seen elsewhere) like one file?
Without knowing what I'm doing I reckoned maildir would be safer.
I've always found it to be safer as long as the max # of entries is
not exceeded.
What would that maximum be? Here mutt appears to competently handle
a 6GB mbox with 372,210 entries, albeit slowly.
Cheers,
David.
IDK about ext4, but historically, I go back to microware's os9 circa
1983 in terms of expanding and debugging it 40+ years ago, file systems
have had a max limit to the first extant of a directory, but since ext4
I guess the extant linkage is transparent, I've not run into it that I
know of.
But I've lost several good sized mbox files because 1 bit got fliped so
I've been a maildir fan for 20 years, there you only trash one message
when a sector goes to Oklahoma City for the holidays.
Take care, David.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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