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Re: Maildir parsing optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6



We could make it a run-time option.

On 2003-10-07 22:13:10 +0200, Bjoern JACKE wrote:
> From: Bjoern JACKE <bjacke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 22:13:10 +0200
> Subject: Re: Maildir parsing optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6
> Mail-Followup-To: Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx
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> On 2003-10-06 at 10:37 +0200 Florian Weimer sent off:
> >Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> >
> >>Sounds good, but could you reassure us that the patch has or should
> >>have no ill effect on other filing systems, such as ext2, reiserfs and
> >>xfs?
> >
> >I could make it conditional on the file system time.  But this would be
> >very Linux-specific.
> 
> making things like that filesystem specific doesn't look very nice to 
> me. You could by the way not always easily find out which filesystem 
> is used, think about bind mounts ...
> On the other hand sorting the inodes doesn't look very filesystem 
> specific and I don't think it will make any bad things on any 
> POSIX compliant filesystem I can think of. I think people should test 
> it with different filesystems and that should be fine.
> 
> Bjoern



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