[Imap-uw] Mix filesize

[Dan Pritts]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:14:53PM -0700, nlin wrote:
> Hmm...I guess it depends on how you think of it.  If I had 1GB inbox with 
> 10MB dataroll, that's 100 files that get touched every day, with a 20MB 
> data roll, that's 50 files.  If I'm going to be making backups anyway on 
> all these files, then I would rather have bigger file sizes so that I don't 
> have such large number of files in each directory.
> 
> Or, most people update messages that are more recent. If I aggregated them 
> into one file, then 1 or 2 files are back'ed up each day.  vs a larger 
> number of files if I had smaller dataroll.

my presumption is that by reducing the file size you would end up NOT
having to back up each individual chunk.  But i sure could be wrong.

i guess the only way to be sure is to analyze the mailbox contents to
see how many of the actual messages are "touched" each day.

danno