786023 - Consider counting msf file size when displaying size on disk info

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Database, enhancement)

Description

[Stefan Plewako [:stef]]

In bug 768621 size on disk info was added to folder -> Properties… -> General information. Since msf file is directly related to folder content we should recognize its size as part of space occupied by folder and incorporate such information somehow.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

How hard would this be?

Comment 2

[Kent James (:rkent)]

I don't think it would be very hard to do. A folder has a single database, and you could get its file size pretty easily.

But you are going down a slippery slope here. If the user is asking "how much space would I save if I deleted this folder?" then you also have the issue of the gloda index which takes up quite a bit of space. There is no practical way to see the effect of a folder's messages on the gloda index.

If the user is asking "how close am I to the 4 GB limit for mbox size?" then the existing implementation is better. Or you need to add the database size as a separate parameter.

Personally I don't think this is something we should do, but that is just my opinion.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

My thinking is similar to Kent's

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Mork will be gone in the next couple years, so it's fair to say we won't do this between now and then. And after that we will be in the database world, where it won't even be possible to extract the size