Q: Mailbox format

[Sergey Kuznetsov]

At the same time you have a pro for Maildir, which is:
	If you will lose one file, you will lose only one message, not all of them.
Sometimes even journaling filesystems, like Ext3 can't fix the issue with lost 
file.


On April 21, 2004 11:04 pm, Anton Markov wrote:
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> 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. I think this argument is probably out-dated
> by now.
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> S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> > There's a general reason why file/message formats are a bad idea. Just
> > about every filesystem in existance serializes file creation and
> > deletions because these manipulate the free space map.  This turns out to
> > be an enormous problem when you start creating/deleting more than a few
> > messages per second; you spend all your time thrashing in the filesystem.
> >
> > It is also extremely slow to do a text search through a file/message
> > format mailbox.  All of those open()s and close()s really add up to major
> > filesystem thrashing.
> >  ...
>
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