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:\r
+> On 01/28/2011 08:05 PM, Stewart Smith wrote:\r
+> > I'm about at the point where I'm going to take my git mail store\r
+> > experiments and get them really to work (and everyone will have to use\r
+> > 'notmuch cat' or the like to access the messages)\r
+> \r
+> Would this hypothetical git-based mail store retain the atomicity and\r
+> lockless concurrent-access of a maildir?  That is, could it be used in a\r
+> server environment?\r
+\r
+My idea is that it would be... at least with the experiments conducted\r
+so far.\r
+\r
+> > which should provide\r
+> > both great storage efficiency, much faster backups of your Maildir as\r
+> > well as having way fewer paths to traverse checking for new mail.\r
+> \r
+> when you say "backups of your Maildir" do you mean "backups of your\r
+> git-based mail store" ?  or is this somehow a literal Maildir stored in git?\r
+\r
+I'll write more "soon" when there is more code behind it... and I figure\r
+out a good upgrade path to something that is also self-consistently sane.\r
+\r
+-- \r
+Stewart Smith\r