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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:14:09 +1000
From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] rfork(RFPROC) and ffork()
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:00:19 -0500
Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> > Given that the current mbox file format doesn't scale well to
> > tens of thousands of emails, I'm not worried about the fact that
> > the file system doesn't either.
> 
> The standard hack (did MH ever pick this up?) is to split the
> directory, e.g., message 32456 is stored in 32/456 or 3/2/456.

nmh didn't pick it up. I wish, oh how I wish it had. 

-George