-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2013-08-26 a las 15:17 +0200, Hans Witvliet escribió:
From: Carlos E. R. <>
I find Maildir inefficient in terms of perfomance - try doing a full text search on a 12000 mails folder (as the one for this list in this machine).
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Really? I am on the brink on migrating from mbox towards Maildir because of efficiency...
I was expecting the opposite from what you write.... If you have just one mbox-file, sequential reading/searching mbox might be fast, but when you mutate a lot, storing messages into individual files and subfolders in separate dirs looks more efficient. Specially when dealing with large (sub-)folders
Maildir, to my knowledge, is only more efficient when you do many inserts and deletes. And frankly, with good clients like Pine I don't even notice it. Another alledged problem of mbox is concurrent ussage (like fetchmail adding an email, while the client does something else. In practice, I have never hit such a problem in 15 years.
With regards to btrfs, it uses a more efficient way of storing meta-data, and does not need full 4K blocks for small files...
Well, reiserfs stored small files directly on the metadata tree, no allocation. I would like to read some document comparing both in this respect. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlIbbBwACgkQja8UbcUWM1wW1gD/bgnPUc0tkDCEV3L1FTbvrqKm wKfl0gRlOFREEUirkSYA/1ijgMCUfGkQkB/WbvrdNM0/5TBPhrFZy/LYCSj+XhvG =5QoS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----