[GTALUG] Interesting essay on filesystem consistency
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Fri Dec 18 15:34:09 UTC 2015
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:17:41PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> 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.
A lot less inodes, and older filesystems didn't like large directories.
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Len Sorensen
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