Niko Pavlicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I was asking myself, why Mozilla (and Netscape since 4.x) uses one
file
> for ALL messages in one folder?
> Logically it should be faster, if you had one file for EVERY message
in
> a folder and just a index-file for every folder, which would be
renewed
> on exit.
I'm no expert, but it is easily possible for a folder to have
thousands of messages in it. On windows, at least, having thousands
of individual (small) files in a directory leads to huge wastage of
disk space, especially with FAT16 on large disks. This alone is
sufficient reason to jam all the data together in one big file (which
is then easy to compress, further reducing disk usage).
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