On 6 June 2013 18:06, Dale R. Worley <wor...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > I an working on a system to archive files for backup purposes. The > current challenge is a Unix mailbox file which is about 100Mb. By its > nature, new mail is added to the file at the end and most of that is > rapidly deleted.
It sounds like you are using the mbox email format where everything is kept inside a single file. Have you considered using the Maildir fomat instead ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir Regards Martin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
