Re: To mbox or not, that is the question! (fwd)
On Tuesday 27 April 2004 08:34 am, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:53:05AM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > Surely maildir also uses massively more disk space? All those
> > thousands of small files. Or am I misunderstanding something?
>
> Maildir does use considerably more space.
Not necessarily.
It depends on the filesystem. With a large fixed block size, what you
say is true. With tail packing as in reiserfs, the difference is
small.
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