[pmmail-list] PMMail and The Bat!

[Stephen Eickhoff]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:47:14 -0800, Tim Roberts wrote:

>In many cases, he is right, but you have to balance the philosophy 
>against the real risk.  Outlook, for example, uses the worst possible 
>scheme: the messages are hidden inside a single file with a proprietary 
>and non-human-readable format, so if there is a problem, you are just 
>screwed.  Further, Outlook is known to have corruption problems when the 
>file size gets large (1-2GB).  That's an extremely high risk solution.

You just described the mechanism used by the top three messaging solutions for
PC servers: Notes, GroupWise, and Exchange. I know that GroupWise alters it
slightly by storing all messages under 4KB individually. If storing data all in
one large file was so bad, I don't think those newfangled things called
"databases" would have caught on. Your filesystem is really just a flat
database of sorts - it's not the concept but the implementation that determines
how reliable this system is.
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        Stephen Eickhoff
       www.operagost.com
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