From: David Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: I've been talking to Mark Crispin about the Maildir format and he as brought
: up what really seems to be a valid concern to me.
:
: He says that Maildir is unsuitable for large servers because the filesytems
: serialize creation and deletion of files in a single file system, because
: the inode and free block tables have to be manipulated. Thus the file
: creation part of Maildir drivery ends up being serialized and you spend all
: your time in the filesystem. He states problems with servers processing more
: than a few hundred messages per second (300+ or so).
I'm not arguing with you, but what's the difference in disk access between
appending to an existing file (mbox) and creating a new file (maildir)?
It seems like appending an existing file would take at least one extra stat(),
and the inode and free block tables would still have to be manipulated
(wouldn't they?)
--Adam
