Am Samstag, 4. Juni 2005 14:36 schrieb Todd Burroughs:
Maildir. Listing or opening the directory via the OS is rather slow, btw,
This is one of the problems that I've heard about with maildir. If you have a lot of messages in a folder, it may be slow. If listing (i.e., "ls -l") is slow, then maildir will likely be slow as well. maildir
AFAIK ls also sorts the messages by default.
It's correct however that you should use a file system which can cope with many tiny files per directory. My "imap server" uses the journalling Reiser FS 3.5 filesystem which utilizes tree structures to allow fast access to single files in full directories and it seems to perform fairly well. Additionally I disabled the "atime" mount option to further reduce write operations.
I don't know how this translates to MacOS X however...
Greetings,
Gunter
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