Re: maildir - is it just me or....
On 2003-09-01 19:39:25, Ken Weingold wrote:
>I converted to maildir. Is it just me or do maildir mailboxes take up
>a lot more disk space than mbox? And the mailboxes seem to take
Yes, because the blocksize of your filesystem you will lost some Bytes.
If You use a seperate partition for your Maildir, use a blocksize of
1024 Bytes and 3072 Bytes/Inode
>longer to open, at least with over 1000 messages.
On a HP Vectra XA5/200mmx with a Box of 14MByte and 3200 Messges around
15% longer.
>Also, where mbox counts the amount of messages, it also shows you the
>percentage as it's opening. Maildir just shows the amount of messages
>as it's opening. Any way to also show percentage?
I think no.
>Thanks.
>
>-Ken
Michelle
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