From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:55:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Handling large files with GIT
Message-ID: <43F01F5A.5020808@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <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