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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Scaleable mail repositories.
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:30:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25043075ed6ddcb47b1a036742cd432a@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb4bdae61898eb36d87df9ce1df0563a@vitanuova.com>

you spoiled it. i was waiting to see how long it took for the
community to come up with that.

On Mon Oct 31 05:57:02 EST 2005, forsyth@vitanuova.com wrote:

> i don't understand why, now that it's easy to write file servers
> (compared to unix days), it's necessary to store the mail messages
> as actual separate files or directories.  the main problem with
> upas/fs i find is that it rewrites the file instead of treating it
> as append-only, and it reads the whole thing into memory (in a moderately
> bulky format); rather than maintaining a separate index file or files,
> and loading as needed.   both the storage and index structure can
> then be made suitable for the task.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-31 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-29 15:34 [9fans] rfork(RFPROC) and ffork() erik quanstrom
2005-10-29 19:11 ` William Josephson
2005-10-29 19:18 ` Russ Cox
2005-10-29 23:00   ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-29 23:24     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2005-10-29 23:38     ` Russ Cox
2005-10-30  0:19       ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-30  1:07         ` Russ Cox
2005-10-30  1:15           ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-30  1:22             ` geoff
2005-10-30  1:58               ` jmk
2005-10-30  1:54           ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-10-30  2:24           ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-30  2:51             ` geoff
2005-10-30  1:10         ` geoff
2005-10-30  1:18           ` Paul Lalonde
2005-10-30  6:52             ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-10-30 10:14             ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2005-10-30 15:17             ` Russ Cox
2005-10-30 23:00               ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-10-30 23:14                 ` George Michaelson
2005-10-31  2:15                 ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-31  2:33                   ` geoff
2005-10-31  3:23                   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-10-31  4:20                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-10-31 21:31                   ` Dave Eckhardt
2005-10-31  4:06             ` [9fans] Scaleable mail repositories Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-10-31 10:55               ` C H Forsyth
2005-10-31 12:32                 ` erik quanstrom
2005-11-01 19:56                   ` rog
2005-11-01 22:29                     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2005-11-08 19:56                       ` rog
2005-11-08 23:22                         ` Joel Salomon
2005-11-09  0:51                         ` Caerwyn Jones
2005-11-09  0:55                           ` Russ Cox
2005-11-09  3:32                         ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-31 15:30                 ` jmk [this message]
2005-10-30  1:10       ` [9fans] rfork(RFPROC) and ffork() William Josephson
2005-10-31 14:48 ` Russ Cox
2005-10-31 11:32 [9fans] Scaleable mail repositories Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-10-31 16:01 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-31 15:06   ` jmk
2005-10-31 15:14 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-10-31 16:22 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-31 18:37   ` William Josephson
2005-10-31 15:19 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-10-31 15:33 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-10-31 18:38 ` William Josephson
2005-11-09  9:45 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-11-09 10:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-11-09 14:19   ` Sam
2005-11-10  1:24     ` erik quanstrom
2005-11-10  2:30       ` Russ Cox
2005-11-10  6:33         ` Scott Schwartz
2005-11-10 11:55         ` erik quanstrom

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