[GTALUG] Interesting essay on filesystem consistency

[John Sellens]

On Fri, 2015/12/18 03:34:09PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
| On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:17:41PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
| > 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.

And a lot less mail, And messages were much smaller, pre-MIME.

John