On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:14:27 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote: > On 01/28/2011 08:05 PM, Stewart Smith wrote: > > I'm about at the point where I'm going to take my git mail store > > experiments and get them really to work (and everyone will have to use > > 'notmuch cat' or the like to access the messages) > > Would this hypothetical git-based mail store retain the atomicity and > lockless concurrent-access of a maildir? That is, could it be used in a > server environment?
My idea is that it would be... at least with the experiments conducted so far. > > which should provide > > both great storage efficiency, much faster backups of your Maildir as > > well as having way fewer paths to traverse checking for new mail. > > when you say "backups of your Maildir" do you mean "backups of your > git-based mail store" ? or is this somehow a literal Maildir stored in git? I'll write more "soon" when there is more code behind it... and I figure out a good upgrade path to something that is also self-consistently sane. -- Stewart Smith