On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 19:12 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
I notice from your other mails you're using maildir + reiserfs. "hmm". All I can say is I had a lot of weird problems with reiser, and then I changed it over to ext3, and i've had fewer (although not none either :-/). Maildir would probably compound any problems due to the sheer number of files involved.
No, that was me, and the ReiserFS in kernel 2.6 has been quite solid. [snip]
Maildir will only speed up 2 things in evolution if everything is working normally: - expunging deleted messages - if you use colours/labels a lot, since mbox saves them to the actual mail file as well as the summary file. Otherwise it wont really be any different, and in some cases may be slower. e.g. it's much more involved to check a directory for new files than it is to just check the end of a big file for new content.
Interesting. What if you have the situation of squirrelly email servers that is causing email to be days (1 to 14, in the case of some mailing lists) late. Is it all just tacked on to the end of the mbox, with your index file keeping track of the order? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B Tatoo in haste, regret in leisure.
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