Re: [Duplicity-talk] long term incrementals and scalability question

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 02:14:28PM -0500, Elvar wrote:
> That's the unfortunate thing, this archiving product stores
> everything in .Maildir format so data that hasn't been rotated yet
> is constantly changing / being added to. I appreciate the tips.

maildir is good for changing mail (replying, marking as read, flagging it
important, ...), but quite bad for read-only archival, as most filesystems
handle the reading big amounts of files with some pain.