Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-18 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:11:38PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 8/18/13, Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote: On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 02:52:05AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: In GahNU, answer find you :) But you ought to do your bit and find duckduckgo while you're at it.

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/18/2013 12:16 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: PS: My suggestion to use git as an email filesystem store was in jest. ZFS however is a serious consideration for myself, for TiB+ size filesystems at least. BTRFS and perhaps XFS are starting now to look at the internal-consistency assurance

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/19/13, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 8/18/2013 12:16 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: BTRFS and perhaps XFS are starting now to look at the internal-consistency assurance problem too finally (from what I read a month or so ago), due to necessity as we now hit multi-TiB

Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Hi. This may be slightly OT, but I hope people don't mind much. I'd like to come up with an efficient way to store and access my e-mail using a loopback file, so I wanted some advice from experienced people on the list. Currently, I've been using only vanilla ext[34] file systems, but my Maildir

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:59:57AM -0400, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Hi. This may be slightly OT, but I hope people don't mind much. I'd like to come up with an efficient way to store and access my e-mail using a loopback file, so I wanted some advice from experienced people on the list.

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/18/13, Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:59:57AM -0400, Kumar Appaiah wrote: ...storing email in single file... One approach I thought of is a loopback file. That makes things simpler, since I don't really have to repartition, and backing up is

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/17/2013 9:01 AM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: 1. What is the best filesystem for Maildirs with several tens of thousands of messages? ... 3. What filesystem would allow quick file access? I'd like to be able to view the Maildirs in Mutt, and index and search it using notmuch. XFS is something

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 02:28:46PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: And of course the simple solution is to migrate to mbox. Maildir was created for a single purpose: to eliminate file locking contention on the traditional UNIX single mbox file. With tens of thousands of emails this is obviously

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 02:52:05AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: In GahNU, answer find you :) But you ought to do your bit and find duckduckgo while you're at it. I am doing some searching myself, but I did want some opinions from the list. Thank you for sharing your opinions. Kumar --

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/18/13, Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote: On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 02:52:05AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: In GahNU, answer find you :) But you ought to do your bit and find duckduckgo while you're at it. I am doing some searching myself, but I did want some opinions from

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
PS: My suggestion to use git as an email filesystem store was in jest. ZFS however is a serious consideration for myself, for TiB+ size filesystems at least. BTRFS and perhaps XFS are starting now to look at the internal-consistency assurance problem too finally (from what I read a month or so