From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35729 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Question about mail archive Date: 10 Apr 2001 11:46:27 -0400 Sender: prj@multivac.cwru.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171424 4637 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:37:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:37:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 26850 invoked by alias); 10 Apr 2001 15:46:47 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 26845 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2001 15:46:47 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (261@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 10 Apr 2001 15:46:47 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21773 invoked by uid 500); 10 Apr 2001 15:46:49 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Karl Kleinpaste's message of "09 Apr 2001 20:55:31 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 24 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35729 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35729 Karl Kleinpaste writes: > prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes: > > The new version uses one file per message for NOV data > > I have to observe that the whole point of the development of NNTP's > XOVER facility is because news servers were suffering so badly in the > face of user agents entering a group and wanting header data for > hundreds of articles at a time, requiring opening hundreds of article > files in order to find those headers. Hm. Well, there are some differences here. An nnmaildir group has only one user, not hundreds, or however many an NNTP server has to deal with. Maildirs already lean toward small files and large directories, so users already have a motivation to use ReiserFS (or another fs with similar strengths); the new version will just provide more motivation, and take greater advantage of those strengths. :) In the documentation I haven't written yet, I'm going to explain what sort of situation nnmaildir works best with. nnmaildir may not be as general-purpose as some others, but at least people should be able to figure out whether it will work well for them. paul