Re: a new version of maildir

Peter van Dijk <[email protected]> Wed, 3 Mar 2004 00:28:56 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.implementation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:36:02PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> To save inodes, each flag directory can contain a file ":", which we
> make hard links to when setting flags.  But to support more than
> NLINK_MAX messages, we must replace ":" with a new file and try
> linking again if the first attempt yields EMLINK.

Or hardlink the flags to the actual message, which scales for upto
NLINK_MAX distinct flags, instead up to NLINK_MAX messages.

Greetz, Peter
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