From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 29 09:36:11 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA22571 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 09:36:11 -0800 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA22565 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 09:36:04 -0800 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA07015; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 01:36:11 GMT Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 01:36:10 +0000 () From: Brian Tao To: Don Yuniskis cc: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: Mail... In-Reply-To: <199503291719.KAA08418@seagull.rtd.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, Don Yuniskis wrote: > > Sounds like a *perfect* application for a compressing filesystem ;-) What we need is a "mail" fstype that stores userids, mailbox index, message counts, etc. in inode/superblock structures. Users would be mapped to directories and individual mail messages mapped to files within each directory. Imagine how easy something like procmail would be to write? Or dealing with uuencoded messages? Then we could do the same for a "news" fstype. :) -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org