On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:48:00PM +0800, Isaac To wrote: > For me, each mail has two copies. I regularly read one of them, the > "regular" copy, which is stored as maildir. I use spamassissin to scan for > junk, let Gnus throw mails away without too much care, etc., so that I can > control the number of files for storing mails (currently around 2000). To > minimize the wastage on filesystem space, I use reiserfs on my mail > partition, although an ext3 partition with tail files enabled should have > similar effect.
This leads to an important point: some FS's do not handle huge directories well. My d-u folder currently has ~5000 messages in it; ext2 gets very, very, very slow above about 4000. I've switched to XFS for everything, so I don't mind too much, but just be aware of this. I think newer ext impltementations (2.5 at least, possibly 2.4.20 as well) have much better huge directory handling. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ertius.org/
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