On Thursday 12 August 2004 03:13, Randall R Schulz wrote:
I did a little experiment to gauge the internal fragmentation overhead of "mbox" vs. "maildir" storage in KMail when using an XFS file system.
I was talking about reiserfs. No solution is right for everyone, and several factors usually needs to be considered. xfs is known to be good for few large files, while reiserfs excels at systems with many small files, so a benchmark of "mbox vs maildir" will have to consider more than just "mbox vs. maildir" [1]. I have no religious issues on this topic, I just took issue with your comment about its being "insanely bloated", which clearly gives a whole new meaning to the word "insane". Space tradeoffs for speed aren't exactly unheard of, so "insane == large" isn't an obvious conclusion. Anders [1] http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/