On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:48:09PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote: > http://danluu.com/file-consistency/ > > I found it interesting that ReiserFS was pointed at as having amongst the > best handling of errors, passing them back sensibly to applications.
It better have good error handling given how many insane errors it often generates (in my experience). It is not a place I want to store my data anymore. > Also interesting was that they pointed at using SQLite as a way of mostly > hiding applications from worrying about such troubles. > > Also entertaining was the notion of "MBox considered harmful"; makes me > like MH and Maildir all the better, as they have the merit of storing a > message per file, so that there's fewer concurrency issues surrounding > re-opening files and rewriting them. (Possibly I'm wrong, and the problem > just shifts to directory metadata access...) Well deleting a message requires deleting a file, not rewriting the entire mbox after that message, so Maildir is a good idea. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
