linux-kernel - Re: Very slow header cache in mutt if the maildir is on ext3

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Message-ID: <20081217091003.GA26609@dose.home.local>
Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:10:03 +0100
From:	Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@....de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: Very slow header cache in mutt if the maildir is on ext3

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 22:25:17 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:

[...]

> I *thought* mutt had a patch which sorted the files returned by
> readdir() by inode number, and then opened the files sorted by inode
> number order; maybe it was a distro-specific patch that was never
> pushed back to mainline, though.  In any case, sorting list of

It is in mutt upstream, and enabled by default, but only if
maildir_header_cache_verify is set. If not, the inode list is kept
unsorted. maildir_header_cache_verify is enabled by default, but I
disabled it in my muttrc.

Regards,
Tino
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