From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Handling large files with GIT Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:55:38 -0500 Message-ID: <43F01F5A.5020808@pobox.com> References: <46a038f90602080114r2205d72cmc2b5c93f6fffe03d@mail.gmail.com> <87slqty2c8.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <46a038f90602081435x49e53a1cgdc56040a19768adb@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ben Clifford , Martin Langhoff , Florian Weimer , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Feb 13 06:56:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F8Wgs-0005dg-68 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 06:56:02 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750908AbWBMFz7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:55:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750912AbWBMFz7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:55:59 -0500 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:39903 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750890AbWBMFz7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:55:59 -0500 Received: from cpe-069-134-188-146.nc.res.rr.com ([69.134.188.146] helo=[10.10.10.99]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.52 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1F8Wga-0001FI-1K; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:55:44 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: 0.1 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "srv2.dvmed.net", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: 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. [...] Content analysis details: (0.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [69.134.188.146 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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