On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Jim Knuth <j...@jkart.de> wrote: > am 17.03.11 22:33 schrieb upen <upendra.gan...@gmail.com>: > >>> >>> If you expect to have any folders with lots of messages, I would use >>> mdbox rather than Maildir. NFS tends to have performance problems with >>> lots of small files, and Maildir uses one file per message, where mdbox >>> has a sort of compromise between lots of files and the huge files that >>> mbox creates. >> >> Thanks Patrick. >> >> OK. back to zero again. Now this is new piece of information for me >> which tell me that mdbox is better than Maildir format for emails on >> NFS. > > really? Only for NFS?
No I don't know I want to know which is best performance mail format for local storage of emails now that I read that mdbox performs better in NFS environment. Thanks.
