From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38787 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: IMAP vs nnml ? (was: Palm and Gnus) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:36:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87d74u4r9g.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> <87zo7wsqm8.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035174594 24310 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:29:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:29:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 4596 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2001 23:37:30 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 23:37:30 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f8FNb3U29268 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:37:04 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id BAA23761; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:36:58 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 53ED720B0; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:36:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:21:01 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.106 Original-Lines: 16 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38787 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38787 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 -- Symbol's function definition is void: signature