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Re: mutt - slow mbox'es



Hi,

* Michelle Konzack wrote (2004-07-22 16:56):
>Am 2004-07-21 15:07:46, schrieb Thorsten Haude:
>>* Thomas Glanzmann wrote (2004-07-21 14:48):
>>>[slow mboxes]
>>>So don't try to fight symptoms but solve the problem, which means move to
>>>maildir.
>>
>>I once switched, but maildir was considerably slower than mbox. What
>>could be the reason for this? Which file system would be best for each?
>
>Which filesystem do you use ?  "ext2" ?

I did use ext2 then, yes. That was before any one of the JFS were
production quality on Linux.


>With Maildir use "ext3" or "reiserfs"

Heard and lived through too much badness to ever try Reiser again. I'm
on XFS now, seems to work fine.


Thorsten
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