[Info-vax] Large mailboxes

[David Jones]

On Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at 5:39:34 PM UTC-5, Dave Froble wrote:

While discussing options, there's always the file-system-is-a-database approach. Each
message is a file and the filename is a date key. Files-11 is generally a poor choice for
that access pattern (small files, lots of deletes), but it's not that uncommon in unix.
Unix has specialized file systems designed to accommodate such poor choices of
the application writers.

OpenSSL implements its certificate store as a 'certs' directory where the each file holds
a certificate and the name is a hash of the signature.