On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 18:19 -0500, sean finney wrote: > can't help but chime in here :) > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:22:30AM +1100, Brian May wrote: [snip] > > figuring the average email is about 13-15k, i believe an ext2/ext3
That seems awfully huge. In my (Maildir) archive of d-u, the average size is 4,959 bytes. Of course, there are no html mails. Though, even in my Evolution list archive, where there are many more html-mails, the average size is only 6,097. > filesystem created with default options would fill up before running > out of inodes. > > > Of course, all of these factors depend on the file system used. I am > > confident somebody could point out a file-system that eliminates many Reiserfs, of course. > > of these disadvantages. > > recent versions of kernel/ext2/ext3 have built-in dirent hashing, which > cuts heavily on the many-files penalty. another benefit of maildir > is that when you modify a single message, you only need to modify the I thought it was "illegal" to modify a message. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep." Dorothy Eden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
