[Tilesathome] Proposal: Keeping tileset as one file

spaetz osm at sspaeth.de
Fri Jun 6 18:16:57 BST 2008


On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:28:57PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> Look at the history. Old news systems (netnews - NNTP) used one file per
> article e.g. cnews and later inn. Then someday people discovered that
> unix or better all filesystems have a problem with millions of files so
> they switched to containers e.g. multigigabyte files with a much more
> simplified way of accessing e.g. an index saying - article A starts at
> offset 55605 and its size is 5500 bytes.

IMAP mapdir vs mbox?
groupcal (or groupdav)?





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