On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 12:56, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > > > Try converting to Maildir format from mbox. > > > > > > Just don't do it on anything *I* run, I like my disk space, thankyouverymuch. > > > > Heh, yeah, it's probably a good idea to do that on a ReiserFS partition, > > which handles small files better. > > actually, according to some benchmarks that I've seen, ReiserFS isn't that > much of a win for reading small files. it *does* seem to be really fast at > creating big filesystems; and may even be a winner at writing lots of little > files; but isn't necessarily better at reading them back, than most other > filesystems. Ah, well, I was referring to the fact that ReiserFS can put contents of more than one file into a single block on the disk. On modern ext2/3 partitions, you're usually using diskspace in chunks of 4kB at a time, while Reiser allows small files to take up less space (sort of) Anyway, interesting to hear about that other stuff. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Never let school get in the / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ way of your education. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020807/a816a3d8/attachment.pgp