Thus said Steve Meyers on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:13:39 MST: > Yeah, but it takes bloody forever to rsync a maildir. Of course, I've > only tried that on ext2/ext3. Is it faster with others?
That's only if you've let the no-quotas cat out of the bag. :-) rsync'ing a Maildir could definitely cause problems with users that have millions (even hundreds of thousands) of messages in a single Maildir, however, I would be willing to bet that the average number of messages that people keep is not enough to impact rsync that much. But I would be afraid of having an mbox that large... At least recovering from a crash in the middle of an rsync of Maildir would be much easier than recovering from a crash in the middle of a 500MB mbox folder since you only risk corruption of one message instead of the entire file. Andy -- GnuPG ID 0xA63888C9 (D2DA 68C9 BB2B 26B4 8204 2219 A43E F450 A638 88C9) [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 3:39pm up 7 days, 5:06, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.02, 1.11 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
