From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 17 10:30:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D46DE15288 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 10:30:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com ([210.163.200.123]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id DAA24854; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 03:30:32 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3832E1AE.97FFFEF7@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 02:11:10 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jos Backus Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmpfw in pine via NFS References: <199911160329.WAA92082@cs.rpi.edu> <19991117123445.B62132@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jos Backus wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 10:03:07AM -0800, Doug White wrote: > > If so you're breaking the cardinal rule of NFS: Never serve mail spools > > via NFS. > > ...unless you're using the Maildir mailbox format and delivery protocol: > > http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html /me shivers at the thought of my (easily) 500+ new messages a day and hundreds of thousands of messages being stored one file for each message... -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Then again maybe not going to heaven would be a blessing. Relkin liked a certain amount of peace and harmony, since there'd been a pronounced shortage of them in his own life; however, nothing but peace and harmony, forever and forever? He wasn't sure about that. And no beer? Very dubious proposition." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message