On 17/03/11 05:59 PM, Jim Knuth 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?
Not necessarily only for NFS, but NFS's performance hit with lots of files is more egregious than local filesystems. > >> >> Question: Which is best format to go with in general, maildir or >> mdbox? . We really don't want users to use their NFS HOME directories >> for storing and accessing their emails. Even if they create any imap >> folder that should also get created on email server's local storage >> either in Maildir format or the new format mdbox which I've just heard >> about. > >
