Re: Advantages/disadvantages of various mbox types
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:16:05PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 12 at 01:24 PM, quoth Kumar Appaiah:
> >But when I converted my mbox'es to maildirs, the space occupied was
> >almost 50% more.
>
> Chances are, most of your email messages are around 2kb in size, right?
> Problem being: on most filesystems, a file must be made of "blocks",
> which on most OS's, defaults to 4kb in size. And of course, files can't
> split up blocks, so every file is, at minimum, 4kb. When you concatenate
> them together in one file (i.e. mbox) you can put two 2kb messages into
> a single block.
Actually, afaik most filesystems have a means of allocating less than a
full block, at some performance penalty.
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