In the days of !path email a single file made a lot of sense.
It was just much easier.
That is defiantly not true today.
You have to remember a very famous man once said "who needs more than
640K" and someone once predicted that the world would only need 5 computers.
All our good ideas today in 20 or so years will be though of as just
plain stupid.
On 12/18/2015 06:21 PM, John Sellens wrote:
On Fri, 2015/12/18 03:34:09PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen
<[email protected]> wrote:
| On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:17:41PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
| > Makes you wonder why someone
| > thought it was a good idea to just drop all email in to a single file in the
| > first place.
|
| A lot less inodes, and older filesystems didn't like large directories.
And a lot less mail, And messages were much smaller, pre-MIME.
John
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