Q: Mailbox format

[Anton Markov]

S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Anton Markov wrote:
> 
>>Well, I am don't know much about the actual formats, but the argument
>>that having many small files is a performance penalty can easily be
>>eliminated by using a specially-designed file system like reiserfs which
>>can handle small files well. 
> 
> 
> So, without reiserfs, the argument still hold?

That's not exactly what I said. What I meant was that reiserfs has been
used successfully on mail/news servers with good performance benefits. I
would think there is more than one factor effecting the performance.

Like I said, I am not an expert on this.

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