"David Bienvenu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Niko Pavlicek wrote:
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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.
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> That's very expensive in terms of disk space, because many file systems
> have a minimum file size that's much larger than the average message.
Additionally, many filesystems (especially inode-based FS' IIRC) have a hard
limit on the maximum number of files. I found out about this little tidbit
while
working on a web-based message board system--it really cramped my style.
