On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:48:09PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
http://danluu.com/file-consistency/
I found it interesting that ReiserFS was pointed at as having amongst the best handling of errors, passing them back sensibly to applications.
It better have good error handling given how many insane errors it often generates (in my experience). It is not a place I want to store my data anymore.
Also interesting was that they pointed at using SQLite as a way of mostly hiding applications from worrying about such troubles.
Also entertaining was the notion of "MBox considered harmful"; makes me like MH and Maildir all the better, as they have the merit of storing a message per file, so that there's fewer concurrency issues surrounding re-opening files and rewriting them. (Possibly I'm wrong, and the problem just shifts to directory metadata access...)
Well deleting a message requires deleting a file, not rewriting the entire mbox after that message, so Maildir is a good idea. -- Len Sorensen