Hello mark!

08 Jun 18 19:38, mark lewis wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:

 GK>> 50k of files, and you'll see what I mean.

 ml> i don't kon whow long your "ages" is but around these parts, it is 
 ml> only a few
 ml> minutes... i regularly use find to search a directory tree containing 
 ml> over 1
 ml> million files...

"a few minutes" is exactly what I would call "for ages".

 ml> dolphin just took 3:45 minutes to tell me the tree in question 
 ml> contains

When you're searching for an arbitrary file every now and then, "a few
minutes" might be just fine. However, we were talking about storing
mail. Waiting a few minutes before being able to open a mail is a no-go for
me.


Regards,
Gerrit

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