-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 08:52:13PM -0400, Eric T wrote: > > >> BTW: Dose changing the mailbox format from mbox to Maildir or dbox dose > >> have any advantages? > > > > I don't think it makes any difference in this case. > > > > It would make a difference if you were to Rsync. Since Rsync is done on > a file level; with mbox every new message means that the entire mbox > file will need to be copied out.
Oh, no. Rsync is smarter than this. If you don't tell it _not_ to do it, it will transfer chunks of files which have changed and modify the target file in-place. How it does recognize what to do is actually worth a read [1]. Note that this algorithm is ideal for files which are (mostly) appended to, like mboxes or log files. [1] <http://rsync.samba.org/tech_report/> Regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI5cipBcgs9XrR2kYRAg1bAJ44aTHZenfr3PmAfLZkgXBlrnMNwQCeLKnb USJ2yIxUiUZVw+hVN7zQ0Rs= =y67Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
