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On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 08:52:13PM -0400, Eric T wrote:
BTW: Dose changing the mailbox format from mbox to Maildir or dbox dose have any advantages?
I don't think it makes any difference in this case.
It would make a difference if you were to Rsync. Since Rsync is done on a file level; with mbox every new message means that the entire mbox file will need to be copied out.
Oh, no. Rsync is smarter than this. If you don't tell it _not_ to do it, it will transfer chunks of files which have changed and modify the target file in-place. How it does recognize what to do is actually worth a read [1].
Note that this algorithm is ideal for files which are (mostly) appended to, like mboxes or log files.
[1] http://rsync.samba.org/tech_report/
Regards
- -- tomás
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