Re: [OT] maildir (was Re: procmail and Large File Support)
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 18:19 -0500, sean finney wrote:
> can't help but chime in here :)
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:22:30AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
[snip]
>
> figuring the average email is about 13-15k, i believe an ext2/ext3
That seems awfully huge. In my (Maildir) archive of d-u, the
average size is 4,959 bytes. Of course, there are no html mails.
Though, even in my Evolution list archive, where there are many
more html-mails, the average size is only 6,097.
> filesystem created with default options would fill up before running
> out of inodes.
>
> > Of course, all of these factors depend on the file system used. I am
> > confident somebody could point out a file-system that eliminates many
Reiserfs, of course.
> > of these disadvantages.
>
> recent versions of kernel/ext2/ext3 have built-in dirent hashing, which
> cuts heavily on the many-files penalty. another benefit of maildir
> is that when you modify a single message, you only need to modify the
I thought it was "illegal" to modify a message.
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