From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: [sources] 20070410: % cat From: Lucio De Re Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:00:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <9ab217670704130725k7baf92b3ve84862ec71130a14@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 46a44e3c-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Do you know anybody who has ever come up with a better idea? This is > very similar to Maildir replacing mbox. It sounds good, but when you > have 250k messages, it ends up being slower simply to traverse the > directory. In FreeBSD anyway. > A valid comment, I must grant. I guess I'm hoping the better idea will not be overlooked by a NIH when it does present itself. > However, it does scale. Much, much better than a case where you have > the same requirement for thousands of systems in a switch () statment. Also valid. But a database lookup would be even better, would it not? That has got to be kept in mind, like or not. Thinking out of the box is called for, will it ever happen? ++L