[Mailman-Developers] Incoming Queue format

[Brad Knowles]

At 12:23 PM -0400 9/29/06, emf wrote:

>>  So your assumptions about what kinds of filesystems may
>>  or may not be appropriate are not necessarily going to
>>  coincide with the decisions that other people make, or
>>  the kinds of hardware and OS they may be forced to live
>>  with.
>
>  I don't disagree with this assertion, nor am I making
>  assumptions about what people get to live with.

Actually, that is precisely what you did.  You said that we shouldn't 
bother implementing something that XFS and ReiserFS would fix anyway, 
and that people who would be running Mailman would "obviously" choose 
to run the "best" filesystem for their application.

Your claims to the contrary are disingenuous, at best.

>  Most of the maildir phenomena you have an issue with
>  wouldn't even arise in the use case under discussion;

We're talking about maildir-mailbox-per-list.  So, all known issues 
with Maildir mailboxes would be applicable, because they would *be* 
Maildir mailboxes.  The fact that we would be using Maildir mailboxes 
as a method of handling incoming messages instead of having them 
written to a 7th edition mbox-format mailbox, is purely an 
application-level implementation detail.


That said, I'm done arguing with you and Barry.  You guys go do 
whatever you want.

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