[GTALUG] Interesting essay on filesystem consistency

[Alvin Starr]

In the days of !path email a single file made a lot of sense.

It was just much easier.

That is defiantly not true today.

You have to remember a very famous man once said "who needs more than 
640K" and someone once predicted that the world would only need 5 computers.

All our good ideas today in 20 or so years will be though of as just 
plain stupid.

On 12/18/2015 06:21 PM, John Sellens wrote:
> 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
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