Re: Alternative (raw) message store (i.e. instead of maildir)

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+From: Vladimir Marek <Vladimir.Marek@Oracle.COM>\r
+To: Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>\r
+Subject: Re: Alternative (raw) message store (i.e. instead of maildir)\r
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+Hi,\r
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+I have objections against maildir too, but I tried to tackle it from\r
+different perspective. Store the maildir in zip file and use fuse-zip to\r
+manage it. It works sort of but it has two major disadvantages:\r
+\r
+ - fuse zip stores all changes in memory until unmounted\r
+ - fuse zip (and libzip for that matter) creates new temporary file when\r
+   updating archive, which takes considerable time when the archive is\r
+   very big.\r
+\r
+Looking at the zip file format, it could be made so that all\r
+modifications would result only in appending new data to it (deleting is\r
+writing new directory index not containing the deleted file).\r
+\r
+I even made proof of concept libzip modification.\r
+\r
+Of course this solution would have some disadvantages too, but for me\r
+the advantages would win. At the moment I'm not sure if I want to\r
+continue working on that. Maybe if there would be more interested guys\r
+...\r
+\r
+Cheers\r
+-- \r
+       Vlad\r