Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 2000-09-05 20:44:42 +0200, Michael Tatge wrote:
>
> > I switched from mbox to Maildir a few days ago. I always had the
> > feeling that Maildir is much slower - well for big Mailboxes at
> > least - than mbox. Now I did some testing.
>
> This might be related to your file system's performance.
Could you elaborate? How do you make a file system perform
better in relation to maildirs? I use reiserfs and I too think
that maildirs are slower when opening folders beyond a certain
size. I therefore keep my folders below approx. a 1000 messages.
Regards,
Morten
