Jeremy Hughes ([email protected]) wrote: > I'm not sure what's so wrong with having thousands of message files - > most application packages (e.g. Safari) contain thousands of resource files.
Just try to copy one 1 MB file versus 1000 files of 1 KB each ... Not to mention that a monolithic files takes up less space. For the same reason I am not a big fan of the package idea; even moving rather than copying a package takes more time. Sometimes when I have to copy a package containing thousands of files to a slow medium I first compress the package to a ZIP archive and copy that. Even when the total file size wouldn't be significantly smaller, copying a single file is so much faster as to make this worthwhile. So I'm all for the monolithic database approach. I don't care if a backup needs to copy the whole file - copying a single file is fast. - Michael Michael J. Hußmann E-mail: [email protected] WWW (personal): http://michael-hussmann.de WWW (professional): http://digicam-experts.de
