Brian Candler writes:

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 08:03:20AM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Brian Candler writes:

> The benefit of this is that in the normal case where a client downloads and
> deletes all messages, no courierpop3dsizelist file needs to be written at
> all - thus there is no overhead in terms of disk space, inodes, and disk
> operations to maintain it.

The overhead here is a single open(), write(), and close() system call. Nothing to lose sleep over.
We're talking a Netapp with a few hundred thousand mailboxes and growing. If
I can save one inode and one data block per mailbox, and one open-read-close
open-write-close-rename set of NFS operations per login, that's a bonus to
me.
Well, I think I'll start with only rewriting courierpop3dsize if needs rewriting at login time, and worry about the rest later.



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