On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:39:05PM +0100, Benjamin Michotte wrote: >On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:01:39PM, Christian Ordig wrote: >> uhhh ... what kind of system did you use for measurement?? >P2-350 with a 20Gb HDD running Linux 2.4.17 on a Slackware 8.0. >My ~/mail is on a 600 Mb reiserfs partition. I think I will convert my >/home dir to ext3 and then try Maildir to compare. > >> on my P100 with a quite old HDD running OpenBSD 2.9 it takes >> about one minute to open the whole mutt archive of last year >> (about 9900 messages)... >It takes about 7 seconds to open my mutt archive with 7914 messages. > >> the advantage of Maildir over mbox I see: deleting a single message >> in a really big mailbox is nothing more than simply deleting one >> file with mbox it means writing the whole folder again leaving out >> this one message ..... >yes, I know. I tried to convert my mbox to Maildirs, but about 3 minutes >to open a folder is really awfull, so I keep mbox
If we look in speed to read right..? how about savety...? let's say I want to copy paste 1000 email to some place, I think maildir format is better (could separate each other message). -- budsz
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