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