-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/08 15:23, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 03:36:55PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 01:25:59PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Use a storage method that doesn't put all eggs in one basket. >> What filesystem doesn't put all the eggs in one basket? > > I don't think Ron was talking about UPSes, filesystem options, or RAID. > Given the context of the conversation at that point, I'm pretty sure he > was referring to the mbox basket, which puts all messages into a single > file. If the system drops while that one file is in an unstable state, > then you lose everything. > > There are other mailbox formats, most notably Maildir, which store each > message in a separate file. If the system drops while a file is being > written and that file's data is lost, then you only lose one message > instead of the whole mailbox.
That's exactly what I meant - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHo+dmS9HxQb37XmcRAsZcAJ4kpFZy46GyrHCrGsERzGFwBBisLQCdG9oO Ppmn770J9o0D4lnIZtxszbs= =Khq7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
