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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 05:52:29 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Gary R. Van Sickle schrieb:
 >cgf:
>>Does maildir even work without resorting to managed mounts?
> 
> Nope, it can't.  Special chars in the filenames which Windows either doesn't
> support at all or treats differently than Unii.  Maildir is a decent idea
> implemented in a non-POSIX, non-portable manner.

And thinking of it longer, it will only make sense on a decent fast 
filesystem with so many files in the dirs. ReiserFS e.g.
We even added the quota (size in bytes) to the filename in our maildir 
hack, so that a single readdir gives us the complete size of the dir. No 
stat's of the files needed.

NTFS is way too slow, only simple mboxes work fine.
Same would go for news servers. Don't we have one? Hmm.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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