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> as usenet admins once did for news spools Message-per-file was abandoned pretty quickly once the volume started to go up in favour of things like Diablo's "h
by zimpenfish 2y ago
> as usenet admins once did for news spools
Message-per-file was abandoned pretty quickly once the volume started to go up in favour of things like Diablo's "huge file that's a circular buffer" approach. Then the tuning was more about, IIRC, how big you could make inodes to efficiently handle huge (100s of GB) files (not really a problem for mail messages!)
(although I have to say I am 20 years out of usenet admin and maybe things have swung back towards the INN style - it does make long retention easier and modern filesystems are probably much better. Back then we were experimenting with everything from JFS to XFS to FreeBSD to ...)