[Mailman-Developers] Requirements for a new archiver

J C Lawrence claw at kanga.nu
Thu Oct 30 17:07:40 EST 2003


On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:20:10 -0500 
John A Martin <jam at jamux.com> wrote:

> Out of idle curiosity, why doesn't 'write once read many' indicate a
> directory more than a database?

1) The filesystem is a database.

2) Unix filesystems have extremely limited meta-data.

3) A discussed format is putting the mesasges on the filesystem (as a
BD), and the meta data in a different DB (primarily due to
open(2)/stat(2) expense.

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