On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:51, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:41 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:22, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:13 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 21:11, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > > Evolution > > > > > uses mbox-format files to store mail internally too. > > > > > > > > With an option to change it to MailDir. > > > > > > How? > > > > Go to folder of choice, Right click, and then select. > > There's 3 there. Mbox/MH/MailDir > > That's not what I see here: > > Copy... > Move... > New Folder... > Rename... > Delete > Properties > > The Properties dialog just has a tickbox for enabling/disabling > indexing. I noticed that you're using 2.0x of Evo. I'm on 1.4.x. attached is a screenshot. > > > > > All my mail-lists are in mbox (due to HUGE #s) > > > > > > Why are large #s a problem? > > > > 52,644 mails for fedora list alone. > > I don't archive it by month/year/hour. > > I like to do incremental backups during the week, which is why I'm > particulary interested in MailDir for the folders for my busy mailing > lists, like this one. I'm lazy and since this is a laptop, Only backup are when I remember and when I feel like it :-( > > > And I store my mails in XFS home directory. That means there's some > > inherrent slow_ness with dealing with large #s of small files. > > I'm on ext3; is that likely to be better or worse? ext3 is OK. Ext3, to me is more like the allrounder. XFS is good for _large_ files. reiserfs for small/lots of files. It's Good as a squid proxy cache though. (benchmarks shows that ext3 on 2.4 shows the best performance compared to even using reiserfs) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:06:29 up 8:08, 7 users, load average: 0.56, 0.60, 0.54
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