Thomas Hurst wrote: > * Samuel Padgett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > So the advantage of Maildir is speed, and the disadvantage is that > > it eats inodes for breakfast? > > I was under the impression Maildir was extremely slow, just without > locking issues, making it a good option for pop3 servers.
my understanding is that it's fast; however some types of filesystems are slow with a lot of small files (ie ext2). with POP3, the issue isn't so much locking (IIRC) but that it doesn't have to open the whole file everytime someone pops some mail off when maildir is used. maildir itself should be faster than mbox with the right filesystem, or at least that's the theory. w
