benbrown

May 30th 23 5:42 pm

@casey@sharetron.com yeah, there are drawbacks for sure. part of what I wanted to find out is how far I could go. I thought a few thousand - definitely not 60,000!!

@benbrown filesystems make great blob storage for variable length data. Traditional mail servers like cyrus, courier or dovecot would store each email in a file in a maildir which can be hundreds of thousands or millions of files, so this use case has been well tested. BeOS mail famously stored the to/from/subject/etc as file extended attributes and the email client was just the normal file browser.

@raven667@hachyderm.io oh that's cool, I did not know that. But yeah, filesystem is great. And no complex dependencies with their own dependencies.