On Oct 30, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Dave Eckhardt wrote:
Heck, it could be as simple as "each message is 1 directory, containing chunks stored one per file, named by integers, and the original message is formed by cat'ing the chunks in numerical order". That would let the storing agent decide whether the nextpart boundary foo belongs in the same chunk as the bits or in its own micro-chunk.
This turns out to be a pessimization. At MD I prototyped this in one of our servers, and it ended up being noticeably slower than storing the entire message in one file and maintaining a cache of the MIME structure.
--lyndon
