On 07/05/2015 12:45 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
With mbox, any time you remove a message from a folder (either deleting it or moving it to another folder), the entire mbox file has to be re-written. If you delete/move a message from a very large folder, that can generate a lot of disk activity, and creates a long window in which an interruption can corrupt the folder. With Maildir, all operations should be atomic. An interruption should never destroy an entire folder.
Not so. The message is still there, but it's marked in the index as deleted. The file isn't re-written until it's compacted.
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