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