On 8/19/13, Stan Hoeppner 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
>> filesystems.
> The
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
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:11:38PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 8/18/13, Kumar Appaiah 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 doi
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 ago)
On 8/18/13, Kumar Appaiah 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
> the list. Thank y
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
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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 obviou
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 so
On 8/18/13, Kumar Appaiah 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
>> rather easy. So, here a
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.
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