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53 On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:14:27 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
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54 > On 01/28/2011 08:05 PM, Stewart Smith wrote:
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55 > > I'm about at the point where I'm going to take my git mail store
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56 > > experiments and get them really to work (and everyone will have to use
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57 > > 'notmuch cat' or the like to access the messages)
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59 > Would this hypothetical git-based mail store retain the atomicity and
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60 > lockless concurrent-access of a maildir? That is, could it be used in a
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61 > server environment?
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63 My idea is that it would be... at least with the experiments conducted
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66 > > which should provide
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67 > > both great storage efficiency, much faster backups of your Maildir as
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68 > > well as having way fewer paths to traverse checking for new mail.
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70 > when you say "backups of your Maildir" do you mean "backups of your
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71 > git-based mail store" ? or is this somehow a literal Maildir stored in git?
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73 I'll write more "soon" when there is more code behind it... and I figure
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74 out a good upgrade path to something that is also self-consistently sane.
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