Re: [Pan-devel] The Blue Sky Becomes Clear - part 01: Basic Thoughts - revision 00

[Haran Shivanan]

Module 'Bas Mevissen' core dumped on Wed, 2 Apr 2003 with the following output

> * Article database: more fine tuning of the article cache, purging and the 
How about a new way of storing the cached articles?
Currently, each article is stored in a separate file, which means the 
directory is littered with hundreds or thousands of files with each 
burning a (typically) 4KB inode (for linux installations).
I know the mbox format was already tried and thrown away but why?
It would not only be more effecient to store articles in this format, but 
would make it easier to use from another reader or more appropriately, 
read articles from an existing mbox. I think the main argument against the 
mbox format was the cost in parsing the flat file and deleting messages 
from it. But correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the format used by 
many other news readers? (definitely Netscape and possible Mozilla use it)
I havn't extensively used them but were there any performance problems in 
using mbox?

http://www.jwz.org/doc/mailsum.html

Just my 2 cents

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