Craig Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 10:25, dman wrote: > > > Use the 'maildir' format, hope your system has a decent disk cache, > > and use mutt :-). I've got a folder that had 3000+ messages. The > > first time it was opened it would take several seconds to load (my > > disk isn't too fast either), but after that it would load just as fast > > as a small folder (using mutt, of course). > > And use reiserfs too if you can. Big directories are *much* faster > in reiser than many other alternatives.
Guys, I've had lots of problems with Reiser. The whole point, IMHO, is to have a FS that works when the system fails. On no less than three out of three machines (differing OS versions, but all Redhat based) we've used it on we've ended up with corrupt FS's after power failures. Tain't right. (And yes, we've done our homework, gotten the right kernel versions and such to make sure that the reiser guys have no one left to blame (speaking of which, a file system built by people who seem to be more interested in pointing fingers didn't sooth us very much)) So we're moving on the ext3. So far, no problems. (What's the emoticon for crossed fingers?) If ext3 isn't your flavor, we've also been using xfs on terabyte machines for at least a year with good success. We're moving to ext3 instead of xfs on the reiser machines simply because Redhat started supporting ext3 out of the box with 7.2 of their version. rw2 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
