From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: IMAP vs nnml ? (was: Palm and Gnus)
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:36:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafr8t881r9.fsf@INBOX.auto.gnus.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m37kv0qhf0.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:21:01 -0400")
prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
> I would not be surprised to learn that nnmaildir is much slower on a
> block-structured filesystem. ReiserFS (which is not block-structured)
> handles lots of small files quickly and space-efficiently, and
> nnmaildir takes advantage of that.
Well, I don't expect nnml to be better than nnmaildir in this case.
IIUC, both use one file per message.
But since NOV files were recently added to nnfolder, that one might be
a real alternative for some people.
kai
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-13 14:12 Palm and Gnus Ian Swainson
2001-09-13 23:15 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-09-14 9:43 ` Frank Schmitt
2001-09-14 9:59 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-09-14 11:20 ` Frank Schmitt
2001-09-15 10:16 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-09-14 9:56 ` Ian Swainson
2001-09-15 10:19 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-09-15 12:21 ` IMAP vs nnml ? (was: Palm and Gnus) Fabien Penso
2001-09-15 14:48 ` Simon Josefsson
2001-09-15 21:05 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-09-15 21:21 ` Paul Jarc
2001-09-15 23:36 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2001-09-16 5:00 ` Paul Jarc
2001-09-16 10:13 ` Nuutti Kotivuori
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