[Dovecot] New mailbox format

[Dan Hollis]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, dean gaudet wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Marc Perkel wrote:
>> Reiser doesn't use INodes and appears to have infinite inodes. I've never used
>> maildir but if I did I'd want to use Reiser on it because that's where Reiser
>> is supposed to really gain.
> i'm referring to the inodes in the kernel's memory -- not on disk... even
> reiser has an inode in memory otherwise it can't present the POSIX file
> api.

inodes only use kernel memory when the file is accessed. in this respect 
there is no difference in the memory usage between reiserfs or ext3 or any 
other filesystem. think about the case of network filesystems for example.

-Dan