you spoiled it. i was waiting to see how long it took for the community to come up with that.
On Mon Oct 31 05:57:02 EST 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i don't understand why, now that it's easy to write file servers > (compared to unix days), it's necessary to store the mail messages > as actual separate files or directories. the main problem with > upas/fs i find is that it rewrites the file instead of treating it > as append-only, and it reads the whole thing into memory (in a moderately > bulky format); rather than maintaining a separate index file or files, > and loading as needed. both the storage and index structure can > then be made suitable for the task.
