Re: Questions on nnmaildir

[Thomas Neumann <blacky_tn@gmx.de>]

Josh Huber <huber@alum.wpi.edu> writes:

> Thomas Neumann <blacky_tn@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> But that's not the reason, why I write this mail. It seems that
>> nnmaildir is quite an inode-hogger.

> They're hardlinks.

Hmm.

Output of `df -i`

1) /dev/hda5             611648   61281  550367   11% /home
2) /dev/hda5             611648   61297  550351   11% /home
3) /dev/hda5             611648   61302  550346   11% /home
4) /dev/hda5             611648   61419  550229   11% /home
5) /dev/hda5             611648   61548  550100   11% /home

1) nothing done so far
2) B c message to new maildir group.test, which did not exist so far
3) B c different message to maildir group.test
4) C-u 50 # B c nnmaildir+thomas:group.Inbox
   (group.Inbox didn't exist before)
5) Copy 50 other mails to group.Inbox


Seems like I have about 250K mails left before I run out of Inodes on
/home.  Which is not as bad as it looked first, but still less then I
expected.


Is it really that much faster for nnmaildir to pick a specific nov-file
and grab its contents then to search through a single file containing
all novs and look for a match? [Or what's the reason behind doing it
this way?]

tschüß
thomas