Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: link() security | Date | 15 Apr 2002 12:55:11 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20020415143641.A46232@hiwaay.net> By author: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Once upon a time, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> said: > >Not to mention the fact that the single file mailbox design is itself > >flawed. Mailboxes are fundamentally directories, which news server > >authors quickly realized. > > Funny that news server authors realized that storing messages in files > by themselves is a bad idea, while at the same time mail server authors > realized that storing messages together in a single file is a bad idea. > Which one is right? Both? Neither? >
It depends on your access patterns. Newer news server use what I would classify as custom filesystems (which is what binary databases are, by and large) rather than "single files."
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