Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???
On Sunday 09 February 2003 22:05, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> Considering moving from mbox to maildir a very large (~2GB, ~1000000
> messages) email archive. Mostly concerned with the integrity of
> receiving messages intact.
>
> Obviously, this will impact performance and inodes used.
It might not fully apply to the mailclient you're using but I've asked a
similar question on kmail@kde.org, and got quite an informative reply:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kmail&m=103853064326124&w=2
I guess that the inode question depends quite a lot on what type of
fileysystem you're using. If you're using ext2/ext3 you might consider
setting up a dedicated filesystem and experimenting with the --block-size and
--bytes-per-inode setting, I remember quite a big difference in terms of
actual disk usage when I set up a separate partition for a local cddbd
server, (whose data.tar.gz shovels almost half a million files on your
hard-disk) and fine tuned these settings.
Cheers,
Yven
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Yven Johannes Leist - leist@beldesign.de
http://www.leist.beldesign.de
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