[openbeos] Re: Max number of files on BFS?

"Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Mikael Jansson wrote on Sat, 28 Aug 2004 08:11:08 GMT:
> > The reason I ask this is because I noticed my system got a lot 
> > faster 
> > when I moved over all my email (10k files) to another volume than 
> > the 
> > boot volume, and now I intend to keep it that way, because of the 
> > ease-
> > of-use when backing up (instead of having to do the zip -9ry 
> > dance.)
> 
> [snip]
>
> If you reformat the drive (and recreate the new empty indices needed 
> for mail) and then copy over all the mail files (with Tracker or Zip to 
preserve the attributes), it will be noticably faster, for a while.
> 
As I don't intend to keep email files on /boot, would it get any faster 
if I completely removed the email indices?

--
Mikael Jansson
http://mikael.jansson.be

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