On 16.09.2010 18:58, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Harald Becker <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hallo Denys! >>> Imagine you have a 10 gig mbox file. You delete a few 4kb emails. How >>> this space is going to be reclaimed? With maildir, it's a trivial problem. >> True. Each format has advantages and disadvantages. I didn't want to >> point someone else to a specific format, but I don't like TO BE POINTED >> by others. I tried both, MBOX works for me best. > I do not claim that maildir has no disadvantages. > You claimed that mbox is more space efficient than maildir. > I am pointing out that it's not true. It depends on several issues, file system type, block/fragment size, average message size, fragment merging algorithm. I tried several installation times and it pointed out that maildir either needs a file system of reiserfs or it used much more space than a pure mbox installation. messages in mbox a packed together without overhead. Maildir has always overhead (and dont forget to count the directory space). Any overhead greater than zero is more overhead than needed by mbox. You see?
... but I don't want to continue the discussion ... to let anybody convert his mail space ... I just want to have tools working in either context. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
