So sprach »Ricardo SIGNES« am 2002-01-27 um 11:02:07 -0500 : > I'd suggest using Maildir instead of mbox -- my experience has been that > Maildir is faster. There's much less to worry about in parsing a Maildir
Well, saying it so broad as you did, the only answer to this is, that your statement is wrong. On certain filesystems Maildir may be a little faster than mbox, but for example on reiserfs Maildir is tremendously slower in mutt. On ext2 (and also on ext3?), really big Maildirs (not just a few thousand messages though) may make the filesystem run out of inodes. At least I'd think that Maildirs cause more space to be occupied, because every message occupies at least 1 block. That's of course not the case with mbox. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 12 days 19 hours 14 minutes
