From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] maildir history
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 03:35:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YB5/Dyl/YlLwQpIg@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a86e078aea09aa445a2c9d308aea1943@quintile.net>
On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 11:10:08AM +0000, Steve Simon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone know the relationship between Erik Quanstro's maildir changes
> from 9atom and the code on 9front.
maildir and mdir are not the same -- erik's writing covers the main
differences.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150611121250/http://www.quanstro.net/plan9/nupas.pdf
> Is the 9front an independant creation or based (evolved) from erik's code?
it's not unchanged from 9atom at this point but we merged his code
(nupas) in, entirely supplanting the labs upas system.
> Also, honest question, how does the maildir changes help? I understand that
> if you keep a large mailbox (hundreds of items) it will vastly reduce the load
> on the server, but what are the other wins?
any opportunity to reduce the number of mbox in the world should be
taken, as it's the worst file format. but the biggest advantage is that
mdir doesn't spam the worm like mbox does.
khm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-07 11:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-06 11:10 Steve Simon
2021-02-06 11:35 ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2021-02-06 14:15 ` hiro
2021-02-06 14:38 ` hiro
2021-02-06 15:06 ` Stanley Lieber
2021-02-06 15:18 ` hiro
2021-02-06 21:36 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-02-06 22:25 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-02-06 22:46 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-02-07 0:02 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-02-07 0:20 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-02-07 0:21 ` hiro
2021-02-09 10:37 ` Steve Simon
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