Re: Architectural ideas

[email protected] (Barry A. Warsaw) Wed, 19 Feb 2003 00:59:50 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.ng-arch
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>>>>> "akuchlin" ==   <[email protected]> writes:

    akuchlin> Ooh, ouch!  I don't like the idea of using a single-file
    akuchlin> format like mbox because it's so easy for it to get
    akuchlin> corrupted; say, if '>From' escaping gets messed up.  But
    akuchlin> Maildir only defines a single directory, and you can't
    akuchlin> have subdirectories within them.

If I was doing it over again <wink>, I would use MMDF separators
instead of From_ separators.  Four ctrl-A's are much less common in
mail messages than ^From_

OTOH, maildir is probably fine for some filesystems.  I'm no fs
expert, but I think I remember hearing that ext3 and/or reiser handles
huge numbers of files fairly efficiently.

-Barry