From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <25043075ed6ddcb47b1a036742cd432a@plan9.bell-labs.com> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:30:55 -0500 From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Scaleable mail repositories. In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: a3435914-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.