Re: [Evolution] .IBEX file?

[Michael Leone <turgon mike-leone com>]

On 16 Jun 2001 01:25:38 -0400, Duncan Mak wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:46:18PM -0400, Michael Leone wrote:
> > Howdy all.
> >
> > What, exactly, is the .ibex file? I have (at least) one that's large
> > than the mbox file. Is it some kind of index file?
>
> Yes, the ibex file is the index file. For more info, see,
> http://www.ximian.com/tech/ibex.php3

OK; thanks.

I still don't understand this, tho ..

(original mail folder)

[turgon minas-aran LRP]$ ls -la
total 7278
drwxr-xr-x    2 turgon   turgon        146 Jun 16 11:30 ./
drwxr-xr-x   41 turgon   turgon       1035 Jun 10 13:26 ../
-rwxr-xr-x    1 turgon   turgon         63 Jan 19 23:23
folder-metadata.xml*
-rw-------    1 turgon   turgon    3307193 Jun 15 20:00 mbox
-rwxr-xr-x    1 turgon   turgon     124308 Jun 15 22:42 mbox.ev-summary*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 turgon   turgon    4006400 Jun 15 22:42 mbox.ibex*

(delete/expunge 100+ emails from LRP folder)

[turgon minas-aran LRP]$ ls -la
total 6582
drwxr-xr-x    2 turgon   turgon        146 Jun 16 11:31 ./
drwxr-xr-x   41 turgon   turgon       1035 Jun 10 13:26 ../
-rwxr-xr-x    1 turgon   turgon         63 Jan 19 23:23
folder-metadata.xml*
-rw-------    1 turgon   turgon    2596623 Jun 16 11:31 mbox
-rwxr-xr-x    1 turgon   turgon     124308 Jun 16 11:31 mbox.ev-summary*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 turgon   turgon    4006400 Jun 16 11:31 mbox.ibex*
[turgon minas-aran LRP]$ 

Why would the index be close to twice as large as the file it's
indexing? I deleted/expunged many mails from this folder, and the mbox
size went from 3.3M down to the 2.59M you see above. Yet the .ibex file
size stayed the same, at 4M. Wouldn't it have also gone down, since
there was now over 100 emails less to index?

Or am I totally offbase here?


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