On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:20:10 -0500 John A Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
