On Mar 2, 2005, at 11:35 PM, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
Why? 1) The *only* NFS safe mailbox, PERIOD....
5) No locking, no corruption.
I believe that these two are both *false*.
I have managed Solaris systems accessing Solaris NFS and Netapp servers in which NFS handles mbox *just fine*. No corruption, no problems, no nothing.
Oh, you meant on the broken implementation of NFS on Linux? Sorry, you are out of luck. Actually, that may be an unfair accusation, I haven't looked an NFS on Linux in about 2 years.
Second, I believe that maildir actually uses its own file locking scheme in order to make sure that everything works as expected.
Third, both mbox and maildir corrupt files in *exactly the same way* when memory or a disk partition fills *even if NFS is not involved*.
There are reasons to like maildir. There are reasons to like mbox. I can't think of one *technical* difference that matters anymore with modern disks and technologies.
Both formats need to die and should be replaced by something better.
-a
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