Re: kmail corrupts emails [solved]
André Wöbbeking wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 September 2005 15:27, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Randy Kramer wrote:
>> > I suppose maildir will be OK (and maybe even better) for my inbox,
>> > which I generally keep "trimmed" (not too many emails).
>> >
>> > I don't think I want to do that for my mail folders which often
>> > have a lot (thousands) of archived emails (usually short).
>> >
>> > Is it the general consensus that mbox is more subject to corruption
>> > than maildir?
>>
>> By definition.
>>
>> Why do you think Maildir would perform worse for folders with
>> thousands of emails? Everything I've read suggests it will perform
>> better - and more reliably.
>
> Because you need a file system which handles small files efficiently
> (i.e. ReiseFS) otherwise you waste much space on your hard drive.
Space is cheap :-) It's still going to be _faster_ to use maildir than
mbox. Of course, all my partitions are Reiser, anyway.
--
derek
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