Q: Mailbox format

[Henry Spencer]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo 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?

Not necessarily.  Improved optimization for lots of small files is something
that could reasonably happen to the code supporting most any filesystem.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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