[GTALUG] Interesting essay on filesystem consistency

[Kevin Cozens]

On 12/14/2015 01:36 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Well deleting a message requires deleting a file, not rewriting the
> entire mbox after that message, so Maildir is a good idea.

My first exposure to Maildir was via Qmail. I thought it was a better way to 
handle lots of email than sticking everything in a single file that needs to 
keep updated as you read and delete messages. Makes you wonder why someone 
thought it was a good idea to just drop all email in to a single file in the 
first place.

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