On 2012-11-29 01:28:37 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > But it also has disadvantages to the mbox formats which may be crucial > for some people: > - wasting a lot of storage, which can be significant even if you use > small file systems block sizes...
This is a problem with the file system, not with maildir. Here's an example of file system (though not for Unix) that was partly optimized to avoid these block size problems: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~theom/riscos/docs/ultimate/a252efmt.txt (just for the pleasure of citing mail from 1990 :) Now, I would say that in general, the wasted space is small compared to large attachments. And if you have only text and care about disk space, you should consider a compressed format, not "pure mbox". > - full text search will typically be slower, as one has to open/close > many files This depends. I index my archive mailbox with mairix, and with mairix, it is better to use maildir as a search result is built with symlinks instead of copying the individual mail messages. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
