Re: Handling large files with GIT
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- Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
- Date
- Feb 13, 2006, 05:55 UTC
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- <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602122049010.3691@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I've never used maildir layout, but if it is a couple of large _flat_ > subdirectories,
That's what it is :/ One directory per mail folder, with each email an individual file in that dir.
On the side I run a mini-ISP that offers (among other things) SMTP/IMAP/POP via exim/dovecot. I use maildir for my customers, and am desperately searching for a better solution. David Woodhouse and I talk off and on about using git for distributed mail storage.
OTOH, I wonder if a P2P-ish, sha1-indexed network service wouldn't be better for both a git fallback and email storage.
Jeff