Re: [Evolution-hackers] Moving from the single mbox file format for the local folders

[Michael Meeks <michael meeks novell com>]

On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 01:16 +0530, Chenthill wrote:
> One advantage which I see with #1 is that its a standard way.

	One thing about both approaches, is that they will consume more space;
eg. on my 'Sent' folder with 21k messages - on average (on ext3) we will
chew ~2k of space for each of these; which is ~40Mb - around 2%.

	For my cvs commits mail archive, perhaps the worst case, of 350Mb,
(22334 mails) - this would also be around 43Mb - at ~12%.

	That's not as bad as I was worried about; though of course there is
some overhead in terms of inodes and directory entries to worry about
that will crank up the overall size - but it doesn't seem horrible even
on ext3.

	Of course - ext4 / btrfs will do a much better job here too; so - less
to worry about in future.

	HTH,

		Michael.

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