On Sunday 09 February 2003 22:05, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Considering moving from mbox to maildir a very large (~2GB, ~1000000 > messages) email archive. Mostly concerned with the integrity of > receiving messages intact. > > Obviously, this will impact performance and inodes used.
It might not fully apply to the mailclient you're using but I've asked a similar question on [EMAIL PROTECTED], and got quite an informative reply: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kmail&m=103853064326124&w=2 I guess that the inode question depends quite a lot on what type of fileysystem you're using. If you're using ext2/ext3 you might consider setting up a dedicated filesystem and experimenting with the --block-size and --bytes-per-inode setting, I remember quite a big difference in terms of actual disk usage when I set up a separate partition for a local cddbd server, (whose data.tar.gz shovels almost half a million files on your hard-disk) and fine tuned these settings. Cheers, Yven -- Yven Johannes Leist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.leist.beldesign.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
