Re: Writing a GNOME mail client.

[atmczen ibm net]

Hi Mr. Wimer, this is Zen again,

On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 18:45:55 -0700 (PDT)
Scott Wimer <scottw@dev.cgibuilder.com> wrote:

> A file system really doesn't do any of that beyond storing the messages.
> Granted, going with a dB for this could result in lots of space wasted.
> I think an approach that stores the Messages across various directories
> (probably hashed) coupled with dB indexes that point to the location of
> the message would keep us from wasting space by storing the entire
> message body in the dB.
Can you elaborate why storing the entire message body in the database
would waste a lot of space?
(I have nothing against using file system in conjunction with a
database.)

Zen

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