On Monday 09 June 2008 22:24:36 Rick Stevens wrote: > I believe mbox would be much slower. Deleting a thread would force the > system to search through the entire file to find the messages, delete > them, then compact the file to close up the space (there'd be a lot of > fairly big holes in that file). > > In maildir format, it only has to drop the files containing the threaded > messages. The holes in the folder index would be much smaller and > easier to compact. > > I've never compared the two with actual data, but the logic seems sound. > But then again, I used to eat library paste when I was a kid. You can't > go by me. :-)
I changed to maildir because my mboxes had reached a stage where there was a definite performance hit. I'm not just reporting theory, I have practical experience. maildir is much faster than mbox. Anne
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