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

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+Subject: Re: Alternative (raw) message store (i.e. instead of maildir)\r
+From: Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>\r
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+On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Vladimir Marek\r
+<Vladimir.Marek@oracle.com> wrote:\r
+> Hi,\r
+>\r
+> I have objections against maildir too,\r
+\r
+    Just for the record I have nothing against maildir (or at least\r
+when compared to mbox format). On the contrary I find it quite easy to\r
+fiddle with...\r
+\r
+    My problem with it is that it doesn't scale... And I don't mean\r
+this in a theoretical sense, I mean it in the concrete one: I have\r
+about 661k emails... And a single `notmuch sync` takes a few tens of\r
+seconds...\r
+\r
+    (Of course my problem could be partially solved by moving to a\r
+fanout maildir folder, i.e. multiple maildirs. But this doesn't solve\r
+the scalability it just delays the problem...)\r
+\r
+\r
+> 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
+    I also thought of using either FUSE or 9p for this. Unfortunately\r
+it doesn't quite solve my issue as seen above...\r
+\r
+\r
+    Now about other hacks to my problem:\r
+    * I'm aware that I can feed notmuch with individual file paths to\r
+be indexed, but it still needs a path where to find an email;\r
+    * use the before mentioned fanout solution;\r
+    * others?\r
+\r
+    But regardless, having 600k emails on my disk (currently in the\r
+same folder) is insane... Moreover I would have loved to be able to\r
+use some Git plumbing as a store, or maybe CouchDB, etc...\r
+\r
+    Ciprian.\r