Re: Maildir backend

["Jérôme Marant" <jerome.marant@fr.thalesgroup.com>]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:30:21AM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@fr.thalesgroup.com> wrote:
> >   They should not be mandatory and they take too much room
> >   on my system.
> 
> I don't know how you're measuring the total size, but there's a good
> chance the measurement you have is inaccurately high.  The files used
> to store marks are actually hard links to a single file, so each
> additional mark file doesn't take up any more space except for storing
> its name in the directory.  No additional inodes are used.

  Yes, I was probably wrong. I'm trying to understand why it is
  slow on startup.

  Could you please explain how nnmaildir works, mainly the content of
  .nnmaildir/marks? There is also a markfile file that seems to
  be always empty. What is it for?
 
> The NOV information does take up extra inodes and space, possibly
..
> files wouldn't be created.  That change shouldn't be too hard.

NOV can be disable if nov-is-evil is non nil right? 


> >   Would you mind explaining what in nnmaildir has to be modified in
> >   order to have, for instance, a filename based maildir backend ?
> 
> Storing marks in the filenames, you mean?  -request-set-mark and
> -request-update-info would have to be changed, at least.  I'm not sure
> about anything else.

  Well, I'll forget about that.

  Thanks.

  Cheers,

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Jérôme Marant